Nick Grant

Nick is ranked as one of Planning Resource Magazines top planning barristers under 35 and is listed as a rising star for planning in the Legal 500.

Nick specialises in planning and infrastructure, compulsory purchase, and environmental law. He is particularly experienced in residential (particularly older persons accommodation) and large energy infrastructure work.

He has appeared at all levels: in public inquiries, the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court. He has appeared as sole council in each save for the Supreme Court. He also represented the United Kingdom (again both led and unled) before the UN’s Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.

He is on the Attorney General’s C-panel of counsel, is ranked in Planning Resource Magazine’s top-rated planning juniors and top-rated planning juniors under 35 (top 5), and is ranked as in the Legal500 for as a leading junior in planning and environmental law, and as a “rising star” for local government work.

Prior to starting pupillage, Nick was Judicial Assistant to Lady Justice Arden (now Lady Arden) in the Court of Appeal. Before that, he taught Environmental Law at UCL during his BPTC. While studying for an LLM at Harvard Law School, he was a Senior Editor for the Harvard Business Law Review Online, clerked (equivalent to being a Judicial Assistant) for three judges in the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and represented prisoners before disciplinary tribunals.

He is a contributor to the 4th edition of Friston on Costs and A practical guide to planning law and rights of way in National Parks, the Broads, and AONBS (Law Brief, 2020). He was previously an editor both of Garner’s Environmental Law and the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law and Practice.

Nick is direct access qualified and regularly undertakes pro bono work through Advocate, the Environmental Law Foundation and the KCL Human Rights and Environment Clinic.

Qualifications University College London – LLB (First Class) Harvard Law School – LLM BPP University – BPTC

Publications

‘Mandating corporate environmental responsibility through a new directors’ duty’ (2015) Environmental Law Review 17(4), 252-265 ‘Live/Work units: planning matters in property law” (2022) 26 L&T Rev 5, 192 Former contributor to Garner’s Environmental Law Former Assistant Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law and Practice A practical guide to planning law and rights of way in National Parks, the Broads, and AONBS (Law Brief, 2020) Contributor to Friston on Costs (4th Ed, upcoming)