Sasha Blackmore

Sasha has appeared at all levels up to the Supreme Court and has extensive experience of judicial review proceedings, statutory appeals and planning inquiries. Sasha appears regularly in the Administrative Court and the Planning Court.

Sasha has a particular interest in environmental-related matters in public and planning law, and spent time on a Pegasus scholarship in Australia and New Zealand examining their system of environmental and planning courts. Sasha has also been a Trustee and Director of Forum for the Future and has been a Trustee and Director of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association as a member of the Governing Council.

Sasha spent her first year of tenancy as a Judicial Assistant to the Law Lords (Lord Scott of Foscote, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury), working on cases before both the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and the Privy Council. She gained substantial experience of appellate advocacy and judicial practice during that year. Cases she worked on in the House of Lords as a judicial assistant included, R v. London Borough of Bromley, ex parte Barker [2006] UKHL 52 and Belfast City Council v Miss Behavin Limited [2007] UKHL 19.

In September 2020, Sasha was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel. She is also one of a small number of barristers appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s Panel Counsel in 2019.

Qualifications

Legal Qualifications

Common Professional Examination (Diploma in Law) 2004 (Distinction) Bar Vocational Course (2005) (Outstanding) Other Legal Scholarships:

Select Academic Qualifications and Awards

Balliol College, Oxford (History BA 2000 (First Class) (Scholar) Oxford University Gibbs Reading Prize (placed second in year in final examinations) Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. Kennedy Scholar. Graduate level Fellowship. (2002) MProf in Leadership for Sustainable Development (2001) Diploma in Women’s Right Law (2007) LSE.

Sasha was the Judicial Assistant to the Law Lords in 2007.

Scholarships European Environmental Agency scholarship - 2007 Lord Mansfield - 2005, Lincoln’s Inn Lord Bowden - 2004, Lincoln’s Inn.