Wyeside Consulting Ltd provides expert legal advice and consultancy on environmental, energy and climate law and regulation.
Through Wyeside Education, we provide consultancy on education including on AI, EdTech and climate education projects.
Wyeside Consulting Ltd supplies the services of William Wilson as a Barrister, environmental, energy and climate lawyer and consultant.
Wyeside Education supplies the services of Sam Wilson, an education policy expert specialising in developing country contexts
Our work
Find out about our work in environmental energy and climate law in the UK, and internationally, and our education work
It is a great honour to be appointed by Welsh Government as a Deputy Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales, working with the other Deputy John Henderson, and reporting to the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales, Professor Lynda Warren.
I’m very grateful to have been given this Lexology Client Choice award for England, for Environment and Climate work for 2025.
On 11 October 2025 Dawn Media and Breathe Pakistan convened a major conference on air pollution in Lahore, Pakistan.
On 26 June 2025 as part of London Climate Action Week https://www.londonclimateactionweek.org I attended the launch of the 7th edition of this hugely important and influential report and resource at the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/ .
It was great to make a first visit to Accra and Ghana in mid April 2025 to contribute to a workshop on nuclear liability as part of the European Commission programme in support of Ghana’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, led by friends and colleagues from Vienna. I did sessions on nuclear liability, and on nuclear transport.
From 28 to 30 January 2025 the UK and the EU were in an arbitration hearing in the Hague. The hearing concerned the UK and Scottish governments’ decision to ban sandeel fishing in certain areas of the Dogger Bank
On 30 January 2025 the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights handed down a judgement in the case of Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy.
In the late 1990s, while undertaking a Harkness Fellowship in the USA and working on a book on ‘Making Environmental Laws Work’, I visited Silicon Valley to talk to some of the company managers there about environmental regulation and the US computer industry.