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Presents the decisions of the House of Lords on the case filed by National Rivers Authority against Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Limited of violating water pollution regulation. Meaning of causation in pollution regulation; Concept of causing pollution under Section 85 of the Water Resources Act 1991; Causal effect of the company's acts in keeping the polluting substance stored in their premises.

Demonstrates the problems facing British judges in coming to grips with European Community environmental law in national decisions. Permissions for the winning and working of minerals and depositing of mineral wastes; Public interest in the environmental impact assessment; Nature of environmental rights under Community law; Development of strategies for promoting sustainable development.

The article presents briefs related to public health in Great Britain. The British Health Department issued revised guidance on the management of HIV-infected health care workers, dividing the exposure-prone procedures into higher and lower risk categories. Influenza and influenza-like illness reached their highest level since 1989-1990. An outbreak of verocytotoxin producing Escherichia coli occurred between February and March 1999, affecting at least 60 people.

Editorial. Comments on the British government's plans to reform the membership of the House of Lords by removing hereditary peers to sit, as a preliminary to comprehensive consideration of the functions of the House by a Royal Commission. Establishment of a second chamber of the European Parliament; Representative function.

Presents a correction to the article 'When Rape Isn't Rape: Court of Appeal Sentencing Practice in Cases of Marital and Relationship Rape,' that appeared in the periodical 'Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.'