Aidan Thomson is head of environment and climate change. He has practised environmental law since he qualified in 1993.

Acting for clients in the insurance, chemicals, nuclear, rail, local government, aviation, engineering, mining, water and energy sectors, Aidan has wide-ranging experience in contentious and non-contentious environmental matters. 

On the non contentious side, he advises on the full range of environmental liability and compliance issues both in a stand-alone and in a transactional context. 

On the contentious side, he has been involved in defending prosecutions and multi-party claims, restraining protestor action, judicial review, environmental warranty and indemnity claims and insurance coverage disputes.

His experience also includes a one-year secondment to a New York law firm where he dealt exclusively with US environmental matters.  

Aidan has written a number of articles and contributed to textbooks on environmental matters including Multi-Party Actions,Tolley's Environmental Law and Tolley's Insurance Law Handbook. He is recommended in Chambers & Partners, 2010, and in the Legal 500, 2009.

Aidan's practice also includes advising on health and safety issues, especially those that arise in conjunction with environmental issues. He is a member of the firm's Health and Safety group and has advised on discreet health and safety law issues generally and in the context of corporate transactions. He has also advised on a number of health and safety prosecutions and investigations.