(Judgment) Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Directive 96/29/Euratom – Protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation – Failure to transpose in whole territory Citations: [2004] EUECJ C-218/02 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: European Health and Safety Updated: 26 November 2022; Ref: scu.192786
When assessing the economic and social benefits of a new radiation-producing process, the Secretary of State was not obliged to include in the costs, the capital already invested in the plant. BNFL proposed to bring on-line a mixed oxide fuel (MOX) plant. The balances was to be weighed at the time of the decision, at … Continue reading Friends of the Earth Ltd and Another v Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Others: CA 7 Dec 2001
BNFL sought permission to operate a plant manufacturing MOX fuel from nuclear waste. The applicants sought judicial review of the respondent’s permission. The Act provided no way of challenging a plant before its construction. When permission was sought, it was on the basis that the construction costs, of andpound;300 million, having already been incurred no … Continue reading Regina (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Greenpeace Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Admn 15 Nov 2001
The prosecutor appealed dismissal of a charge of receiving a broadcast television programme with intent to avoid payment. The defendant ran a public house. She acquired a card which allowed her to receive transmissions from a Greek satellite broadcasting premier league football matches. The intellectual property rights to such matches in the UK lay with … Continue reading Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd: Admn 21 Dec 2007
