Environmental Law
The firm has conducted environmental due diligence work wherein it has advised local and foreign corporate clients on the various aspects of environmental law in Singapore.
In addition, we have also advised individuals who have suffered illnesses or health problems as a result of another party's infringement of the Environmental Act. This encompasses but is not limited to the following:
Occupational Hazards
a) Violation of Air Quality Standards
The Singapore Ministry of Environment has made it mandatory for building
owners or occupiers to clean and disinfect all air-conditioning cooling
towers and water fountains. The violation of such air quality standards
can result in the breeding of diseases such as Legionnaires' Disease, which
can lead to a potentially-fatal lung infection. People catch the disease
by inhaling germs through tiny water droplets contaminated with the bacteria.
Badly-maintained air-conditioning cooling towers and water fountains are
common sources for such bacteria.
Diseases contracted and/or death resulting from the failure of building owners or occupiers to comply with air quality standards would mean that building owners or occupiers would have to be held responsible and pay damages to individuals who have suffered or died as a result of such environmental violations.
b) Poor working conditions
Poor industrial working conditions such as that of an enclosed environment
thereby causing suffocation and death due to oxygen lack.
Environmental Hazards
This includes damage caused by the emission of products and by-products
which are toxic or harmful to the human body.
Similarly, parties responsible for such harmful emissions will also have to pay compensation to parties who have suffered or died as a result of such environmental law violations.