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Maurice Sheridan
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Maurice Sheridan has been involved in the operation and application of
environmental
law and policy since 1987, including European Community environmental law and policy.
After completing a stage training programme with the European Commission in 1985 and his LLM in International Law in 1986, Maurice spent two and a half years as Assistant to the President of the Italian Constitutional Court, and two years also as Assistant to the Italian Minister for Coordination of European Policies.
From 1990 to 1997 Maurice was extensively involved in particular in issues affecting countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union concerned with preparing their legislation and legal system for the requirements of
European Union law
. This work was conducted mainly through the subject areas increasingly of and affected by environmental law and policy.
His domestic law practice since 1990 has involved and continues to involve extensive environmental law work for predominantly commercial companies, including privatised utilities, and occasionally international and domestic non-governmental organisations. This has commonly involved applying EU law, including policy and experience in European Policy.
His wide domestic court work and advisory work ranges from issues of land-use planning, water legislation, wastewater treatment and regulation, waste management and licensing/permitting issues, IPPC permitting process, protection of human health, and liability for environmental pollution under common law, as well as under statute. He has acted on behalf of corporate clients in domestic nuisance actions, in particular class actions brought under the CPR rules for group litigation. In the last of these he also acted on behalf of the corporate defendant in mediations which in each case led to final global settlement.
He acts on a regular basis for a number of key companies operating in the environmental sector or with impact on the environment in the UK, advising and acting on their behalf before national regulators, local authorities and courts and tribunals.
In addition to his assistance to a broad range of banking and corporate clients, Maurice regularly advises on the law of the European Union. Maurice advises on public and private international law, the responsibilities of public authorities under EU and international law, and remedies under EU law.
In the Legal 500 2009/2010 Maurice Sheridan is ranked as a leading junior in Environment, praised for having
a tremendously wide grasp of EU law and policy
. Chambers & Partners 2010 also ranks Maurice Sheridan as a leader in Environment, describing him as
an outstanding environmental practitioner, who wins many plaudits for his all-round expertise. He represents local authorities, utility companies and waste management operators, and is something of an expert on the EU Groundwater Directive. Solicitors say: "He knows everything there is to know about waste."