About Annabel
Annabel is a specialist environmental lawyer. She has broad environmental law experience advising on matters relating to waste regulation, Habitats Regulations Assessments, protected species and licencing regimes, producer responsibility, environmental markets, international environmental law, and broader ESG policy and legal developments, including sustainability disclosures and carbon boarder adjustment mechanisms. She also draws on a background in litigation and regulatory investigations (where she began her legal career), to support clients with environmental investigations and enforcement.
Annabel also works closely with colleagues across the firm to advise clients on broader sustainability legal risks, including climate change and biodiversity, sustainability disclosures and due diligence regulation, green claims and supply chain risks.
Annabel has a master’s in environmental law and policy at UCL (2022), during which she worked part time at an environmental law organisation in the non-for-profit sector. She has a particular interest in providing clients with the legal tools and understanding to assist their transition to a more sustainable future.
Memberships:
- UK Environmental Law Association
- Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers
- Legal Voices for the Future
Contact Annabel
Call: 0345 646 0439
Mobile: 0781 278 0278
Notable work & expertise
Recent work:
- Acting for a major water company on the publication of its Water Resource Management Plan (WRMP). Work included advice on the application of the Habitats Regulations and WRMP guidance, leading to the grant of permission to publish the WRMP following initial opposition from Natural England
- Advice for a major water company on a Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) investigation. The work required specialist advice on the Habitats Regulations and Habitats Directive, and assisting with ongoing negotiations with the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies
- Advising an international manufacturer on the application of the EU and forthcoming UK Carbon Boarder Adjustment Mechanism
- Providing international law advice to support a significant damages claim following a marine cargo disaster with devastating consequences for the marine environment
- Advising on protected species, including drafting a letter to a Local Planning Authority (LPA) which led to the LPA reversing its decision to require a further bat survey, and allowed the planning application to advance to the committee stage without undue delay
- Assisting a natural capital company with an organisational licence application for major infrastructure company for great crested newts. Grant of the licence will enable better conservation outcomes for great crested newts, whereby our client secures off-site habitat compensation instead of site-by-site compensation
- Acting for a client subject to allegations by the Environment Agency for breach of Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (as amended)
- Assisting in advice on the governance of environmental markets
- Acting for a developer in an appeal against a Restocking Notice issued by the Forestry Commission
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