Categorising environmental harm – South East Water v Environment Agency
The recent decision in South East Water Ltd v The Environment Agency [2026] UKFTT 293 (GRC) raises an interesting question about how environmental “harm” is categorised under the Sentencing Council’s Environmental Offences Guideline (“Guideline”) and, specifically, how a Category 4 harm can ever apply to an offence where no risk of actual harm has occurred….
