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Originally Posted by zharca  hi, on reading that story, the £2000 fine for disturbing the bat colony is useless. Anyone redeveloping a site would lose far more if the project was held up for even a few days, so sending out a signal that the penalty will be a couple of thousand is just encouraging others to do the same. The only real deterrent would be jail sentences for directors or something like barring them from local authority/government work. |
its still bad publicity though I'm inclined to agree that the fines are really too low but if a company continues to act this way they will find fewer and fewer firms willing to work with them or employ them. It will cost them in the long run.Plus its still better than no prosecution at all its only fairly recently that such cases go to court..