In 2018 Guy Linley-Adams has given evidence to the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee and the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committees of the Scottish Parliament on the environmental impacts of salmon farming. See http://www.parliament.scot/S5_Environment/Inquiries/20180305_GD_to_Rec_salmon_farming.pdf for the ECCLR report, issued in March 2018, which was extremely critical of salmon farming industry…
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Guy Linley-Adams continues to advise across the board of freedom of information law during 2016 and 2017, including providing training to a number of environmental non-governmental organisations on using the Environmental Information Regulations and Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations to extract relevant information and documentation from public authorities, north and south…
Guy Linley-Adams is instructed by both Salmon & Trout Conservation-UK and WWF-UK to put forward a joint case to the combined inquiry announced by the Planning Inspectorate into the changes to abstraction licences at Otterbourne on the River Itchen, Testwood on the River Test and in relation to the Candover augmentation…
Two appeals made to the DPEA in relation to the refusal to grant planning permission for an expansion of a rainbow trout farm on Loch Etive and in relation to the continued non-permitted use of the shoreline at Inverawe on Loch Etive to store disused fish farm equipment have both…
A formal petition to the Scottish Parliament drawn up by Guy Linley-Adams for Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland has led to the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee of the Scottish Parliament announcing a formal inquiry into the environmental impacts of Scottish salmon farming, to be held at Holyrood during 2018. For…
In September 2017, acting for S&TCS, Guy Linley-Adams secured another decision from the Scottish Information Commissioner that Scottish Ministers unlawfully tried to withhold information naming fish farms that had breached Scottish Government trigger levels for the numbers of adult female sea lice on farmed salmon. http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/uploadedFiles/Decision142-2017.pdf In 2016 and 2016,…
In autumn 2016 Guy Linley-Adams continues to be instructed on a number of agricultural and pollution matters, including the spreading of agricultural wastes affecting residential properties and the pollution of watercourses flowing across orchards growing fruit under contract for drinks manufacturers that could threaten those contracts. With public funding being…
In 2016 Guy Linley-Adams continues to act for a number of owners of fishing rights including on the River Lambourn in relation to a complex dispute on where the mid-line of the river lies subsequent to work conducted for the Environment Agency to return the river to good ecological status…
Throughout 2016 Guy Linley-Adams has continued to advise WWF UK on reform of the abstraction licensing system in England & Wales which is likely to lead to a new Water Bill introduced into Parliament in 2017. The long overdue reform of the abstraction licensing system is necessary to prevent future…
In summer 2016, Guy Linley-Adams gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Petitions Committee on behalf of Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland in relation to the gap in the law identified by S&TCS relating to the protection of wild salmonids from sea lice emanating from salmon farms on the west coast…