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Appointment definition

What does Appointment mean? In legal practice, an appointment is the contract by which a client/employer engages a professional consultant (for example an architect, engineer, quantity surveyor or project manager) and sets the services, fee basis and allocation of risk. The term is descriptive and used across multiple contexts; it is not generally defined by legislation, though particular regulations refer to specific appointments (for example, construction safety roles). An appointment may be executed as a deed or as a simple contract, including by a letter of appointment. In England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland this distinction affects limitation (typically around 12 years...

Sewerage undertakers in England and Wales: duties, powers, DWMPs, storm overflow regulation, nutrient standards, adoption of private sewers, performance obligations and sewer mapping

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A sewerage undertaker is the company named by the Secretary of State or Ofwat to act as the sewerage undertaker for the territory described in its instrument of Appointment under section 11(1) of the Water Act 1989, as preserved by section 6(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (WIA 1991). The appointed undertaker may carry out its functions within the boundary depicted on the Sewerage Services Area Map attached to that instrument. Any dispute about the limits of an undertaker’s area is decided by Ofwat, in line with Condition A7 of the Instrument of Appointment. Within its area, the undertaker must provide sewerage services pursuant to its duty under WIA 1991, s 94. ‘Sewerage services’ covers the disposal of sewage and any other services that a sewerage undertaker is required to deliver for the purpose of fulfilling its functions.

The Water Act 2014—choice of sewerage supplier

Section 4 and Schedules 3 and 4 of the Water Act 2014 (WA 2014) introduced a sewerage licensing scheme in England. Section 5 and Sch 5 established a comparable scheme in Wales. These provisions came into force in England in April 2017. The aim of the legislation...

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Claire Nevin

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Claire is a tenant at Francis Taylor Building.Before her call to the Bar in 2021, Claire gained valuable experience of the intersection between environmental and human rights law in her work for the United Nations in Geneva, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and a number of NGOs. The breadth of Claire’s previous experience with international organisations, a government department and campaign groups means she is already well-practised in considering complex and sensitive legal issues from a range of perspectives.Claire is building a busy environmental, planning and public law practice. She has appeared as sole counsel for a Rule 6 Party in a five-day planning inquiry which encompassed issues such as designated Local Open Space, a Grade I listed heritage asset, ecology and the provision of affordable and market housing. Claire is currently instructed as sole counsel for a Rule 6...

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