Trees are home to 50% of terrestrial plant and animal species and are critical to retain in order to halt the decline of biodiversity, mitigate the effect of climate change and reduce the environmental risks to public health such as air pollution.
The ethos of Tree Law is to provide ‘creative legal solutions that won’t cost us the earth’.
The reference to cost there isn’t to monetary cost but to cost in terms of continued impact on the environment being caused by big businesses.
Tree Law will be run net carbon zero and will have protecting and supporting biodiversity at its heart.
Tree Law will be the only law firm where 10% of legal fees will be donated to the client’s choice of carbon or biodiversity credit scheme (suggestions as to local or global schemes can be provided).
All work is dealt with by Sarah as Director of the business ensuring quality and expertise is provided on all projects.
Tree Law is run by Sarah Dodd, director/founder, with 20 years’ experience of civil and commercial litigation and as the owner of a couple of key Court decisions in the area of the environment
Cordin & Others – v – Newport City Council – claim arising from flood damage to properties in Newport where water escaped from the Gwastad Mawr reservoir
Keates v Haringey Council – claim arising from the refusal of Haringey Council’s refusal to pay the costs which arose from a refusal to remove a tree preservation order on a protected tree.
Net zero carbon definition from the Office for National Statistics – Net zero means that the UK’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would be equal to or less than the emissions the UK removed from the environment. This can be achieved by a combination of emission reduction and emission removal.
Offset Carbon Footprint: 16.51 tonnes of C02e
Our promise is to provide creative legal solutions that won’t cost us the earth
As a commitment to that, 10% of all profits from our legal fees will be donated to a carbon/biodiversity project of the client’s choosing focusing on improving the environment for all of us.
We would love to work with each client to chose a project to donate this money to but we are also happy to put forward suggestions for projects that we support here at Tree Law.
Tree Law is the trading name of Tree Law Ltd.
We are a firm of solicitors authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority – SRA number 822981.
