Environmental Law

Are you personally liable? Lessons on environmental law and personal exposure

By: Andrew Shute, Partner and Johanna Kennerley, Senior Associate 

Individuals within corporate structures are not necessarily protected from exposure to personal liability where the company breaches its environmental obligations.

Mr Philip Foxman, and two companies of which he was the ‘directing mind and will’ for, were recently prosecuted and sentenced for waste related offences in NSW. Mr Foxman’s prosecution was based on his role as a director of both defendant companies.

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