The implications of environmental issues and environmental legal compliance have become key factors in determining the risks facing industrial and mining operations and any significant new developments and projects. An informed understanding of the compliance obligations, the state of compliance and the risks that face the company, directors and employees is essential to be able to develop and implement a comprehensive and stategic response to such risks.

Our Approach

Our Approach

Warburton Attorneys is well placed to provide the full range of legal services and advice on sustainability legal issues to clients, whether for purposes of general compliance or risk assessment, for purposes of a development or new project, centred on a specific commercial transaction or as a consequence of pending or current litigation or prosecution against the client.

Based on the experience of the attorneys at Warburton Attorneys, a particular area of focus is on pro-actively assisting our clients to achieve and sustain legal compliance, so ensuring the limitation and management of the significant risks that are associated with non-compliance. However, Warburton Attorneys also provides specialist environmental litigation services.

To make an informed and practical contribution to our clients’ operations, Warburton Attorneys presents its advice in a user-friendly and accessible fashion and we usually visit the client’s operations to obtain a thorough understanding of the issues involved.

Our logo is an aerial view of a cross section through a baobab tree. It represents nature’s cog and the cog of industrial development and the complex interactions between these from a sustainability perspective. The logo also links with the logo of IMBEWU Sustainability Legal Services (Pty) Ltd – www.imbewu.co.za. Warburton Attorneys collaborates with IMBEWU Sustainability Legal Specialists (Pty) Ltd, a sustainability legal consultancy.