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Environment weekly highlights—9 July 2020

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Published on: 09 July 2020

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This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes coverage of the government’s summer economic update as it relates to the environment, including the launch of the £2bn Green Homes Grant aimed at improving the energy-efficiency of domestic buildings. In addition this week we include analysis of the judgment in Rees v Windsor-Clive, concerning whether a landlord’s contractual right to enter land ‘for all reasonable purposes’ included, among other things, reasons relating to conducting environmental surveys, as well as a digest of the Court of Appeal’s decision in R v Biffa regarding the categorisation of waste material. We also cover the latest Brexit developments, including updates on the passage of the Agriculture Bill and Fisheries Bill through Parliament.

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