28 June 2012

Environmental Law Prize for Dundee graduate

Conor Kerr, who graduated in Law from the University of Dundee last week, has extra reason to celebrate after he was named the winner of this year's Colin Donald Environmental Law Prize.

The prize gives Conor the opportunity to work with the prize sponsors, the National Trust for Scotland and law firm Pinsent Masons (formerly McGrigors), allowing him to see the work of environmental law in practice.

Conor, from Belfast, hopes to qualify as a solicitor in Northern Ireland. He won the prize with an essay analysing a recent court decision that neighbours affected by smells from a waste site could not sue the operators for nuisance since the site was operating within the terms of its licence.

"We are delighted at Conor's well-deserved success," said Professor Colin Reid, Professor of Environmental Law at Dundee. "Environmental Law is an area of great strength at Dundee and taking part in such competitions is a good way for students to show the qualities that will make them more attractive to employers."

The School of Law at Dundee is the only British law school to offer qualifying degrees in Scots and English law. For more information see: www.dundee.ac.uk/law

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