CAMBRENSIS CONSULTANCY

 

Cambrensis Consultancy

The struggle to keep up with, let alone predict, the ever-increasing legislative and regulatory burdens on an organisation, can be a taxing and sometimes lonely task. Cambrensis was set up to provide experienced support from professionals aware of the issues, problems and the practicalities involved. The company can offer services from problem analysis to solution implementation and is providing the help and guidance needed, in pushing forward strategic objectives internally and externally.

Cambrensis consultancy offers clients access to unrivalled skills and experience, with unique knowledge of government and environmental regulation. We regularly apply this to developing and negotiating regulation at the UK and EU level. Cambrensis is also able to arrange short term, part time or temporary secondments of highly experienced people to help companies and organisations with specific projects.

Recent major clients and projects include –

UK government Air quality regulation, Chemicals regulation

Netherlands government Hazard and risk assessment work

European airports Safety and risk assessment studies

Welsh Assembly Government Radon gas issues

Multinational company EU environmental regulation advice

Aerospace industry Chemicals regulation advice

NESTA Sustainability issues

Multinational company Chemicals regulation

International body International air quality conventions advice

 

Key personnel include;

Dr David Slater - Director
CChem, FRSC, CEng, FiChemE, BSc, PhD

David Slater was instrumental in pioneering the techniques of quantified risk assessment to the offshore and process industries and for both environmental and major hazard applications.

He was appointed by the Department of the Environment to lead HM Inspectorate of Pollution before and during its critical merger into the Environment Agency, subsequently becoming a Director of Environmental Protection of the newly formed Agency. Currently, as well as being a Director of Cambrensis, he is Chairman of NIREX CLG which has responsibility for developing long term solutions to the issue of disposal of radioactive waste.

 

William Wilson - Associate
Barrister, LLM

William Wilson has been a specialist environmental lawyer for sixteen years. He works on environmental and energy law for Burges Salmon LLP, solicitors, as well as being a Director of Cambrensis. He spent nearly ten years working on UK and EU environmental laws at the Solicitor’s Office of the DETR/Defra, including legal management of the Environment Act 1995, Water Industry Act 1999 and publication draft of the Water Act 2003. His work included helping to negotiate the Water Framework Directive and advising government on radioactive substances, air quality, water, waste and general environmental law and litigation. He is author of ‘Making Environmental Laws Work – Law and Policy in the UK and USA’ (www.hartpub.co.uk) based on a year’s Harkness Fellowship in America. He has been advising major clients over the last two years on the negotiation of the European Union’s REACH Chemicals Regulation, and has also undertaken major projects in the fields of radioactive substances, air quality, water, waste and other environmental regulation.

 

Dr John Murlis - Associate
PhD, DIC, FRES, FRMS

John Murlis is a former Chief Scientist for the Environment Agency of England and Wales. He has been Director of Research at the Jackson Research Institute, and Director of the Institute for Environmental Policy at University College London ‘UCL’ , and is now Visiting Professor in Environment Policy at UCL.

 

John Comber – Associate

Barrister, LLB

John Comber has over 30 years of experience within government of domestic and community legislation and specialising in environmental law for nearly 20 years

He was Head of the Environment (National) and Water Divisions of Department of the Environment (“DOE”), Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions (“DETR”) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (“Defra”) from 1986 to 2003 and was the Government lawyer involved in 21 major Government Bills with lead responsibility for the legal team for 14 of these

He has extensive experience of the preparation and implementation of domestic legislation and negotiation and implementation of European Community legislation

 

Professor Philip Bowen - Associate

BSc, PhD, CEng, MIMechE

Phil Bowen has the Chair in Energy Systems, Cardiff University, School of Engineering. He has a range of experience in Energy and Environmental Research and Management in academia, consultancy and industry.

He undertook five years Risk and Hazard research and consultancy with Shell during the early 1990s, followed by R&D in Energy and Hazardous systems at Cardiff University.

Since 2000, he has undertaken a range of international consultancies and research programmes, provided Energy/Environmental advice for multinational industries and government, and initiated a national multidisciplinary Energy Research Centre (Welsh Energy Research Centre, WERC). Professor of Energy Systems and Head of Marketing and Publicity at Cardiff School of Engineering.

 

Raymond Purdy – Associate

LLM, LLB

Ray is an Environmental lawyer and the Deputy Director, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, UCL. He has very extensive experience of working for the European Commission, UK and other governments, industry and academia on a wide variety of projects and reports, and is currently fully engaged on a project concerning satellite evidence.

He is an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III and former Managing Editor, Climate Policy (Elsevier Press).

 Full c.v.s for all Cambrensis Directors and Associates are available at

http://www.cambrensis.org/people

 

For further details please contact David Slater dslater@cambrensis.org

Back to products