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William Wilson has wide experience of the development and successful delivery of environmental, energy and climate legislation and regulation, and legislative drafting, regulatory advice and capacity building. Typically this involves working with expert local counsel and a wide range of government departments and other stakeholders.

He is Recommended in Lexology Index (fomerly Who’s Who Legal) for both Environment 2025 and Climate Change 2025

https://www.lexology.com/wwl/report/environment-climate-change

Examples of William Wilson’s projects in this area include -

  • Workshop on nuclear liability and nuclear transport, as part of European Commission project in support of nuclear regulator, Accra, Ghana, 2025

  • 2023 Legislative drafting project, helping develop completed drafts of a new nuclear law for a country in Europe taking account of developing regulation of Small Modular Reactors

  • Workshops on Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and producing a short film on Biodiversity and Climate Change which has been shared internationally to young audiences in India, Pakistan, South Korea the UK and worldwide

  • Participation as a legal expert in Climate Legislation workshops, Malaysia - with multiple government stakeholders, exploring the pros and cons of different legislative approaches

  • Legal and regulatory reform project, nuclear law, Southeast Asia - drafting new nuclear laws for a potential new nuclear country with a coordinated team of local and international contributors

  • Lead draftsman, nuclear law and nuclear liability law, Middle East - from initial policy workshops through to completed draft laws for review by the IAEA, working with a team of international experts and local counsel

  • Offshore Renewable Energy Law, Crown Dependency -developing policy and then legislation to regulate offshore renewables

NUCLEAR LIABILITY WORKSHOP IN ACCRA, GHANA

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.

April 12th, 2025

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NUCLEAR LIABILITY WORKSHOP IN ACCRA, GHANA

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.

UK-EU SANDEEL DISPUTE ARBITRATION

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

ITALIAN STATE’S INACTION ON ILLEGAL WASTE DUMPING AND BURNING HELD TO BREACH RIGHT TO LIFE

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.

UK JOINS CPTPP TRADE BLOC

On  31 March 2023 the UK government announced that the UK had concluded negotiations on joining the ‘Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’ or CPTPP. 


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