An important measure of the value placed on environmental protection is how the law regulates environmental clean-up and environmental claims in the context of financially troubled businesses. Are environmental clean-up obiligations given any particular status or priority? Do insolvency practitioners such as liquidators have to be concerned with environmental liability issues at all? To the extent that the law envisages circumstances wher liquidators or receivers can incur liability in the discharge of their duties, can this extend to liability for environmental damage?

This publication featured in the Irish Planning & Environmental Law Journal, Volume 18, Number 3, Autumn 2011. Please click on the pdf icon to download the publication in full.