Gordon Wignall

Gordon Wignall is a ‘top-ranked’ individual with special interests in the law of nuisance (environmental, property and commercial aspects), waste, environmental permitting and water law, as well as in all aspects of collective redress (incuding costs and funding).

He has appeared before numerous tribunals and Courts, representing claimants and defendants (including very large organisations) in the criminal courts, the Administrative Court, the Business and Property Courts and PINS inquiries. He has appeared in the Privy Council and in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Gordon’s collective redress cases have involved consumer, competition, financial services and environmental claims in domestic, European and African countries.  He was instructed by claimant groups in  Arch-Cru, Arck, Harlequin, Keydata and the VW emissions cases.  He has drafted CFAs, DBAs and litigation funding agreements. Unusual cases have involved the spontaneous combusion of coal and a post-Brexit Francovich claim for breaches of Air Quality legislation.

Gordon was on the editorial board of The White Book and the chief editor of the Law Society’s Guide to Conditional Fees , with many appearances in the Senior Courts Costs Office. At the time of writing he is updating Garner’s Environmental Law on Common Law Remedies and contributing a new section on Environmental Permitting.

He maintains a website and blog concerned with the law of nuisance, environmental permitting, waste and related issues at https://wiglaw.co.uk/.

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