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Christopher Jacobs

Christopher Jacobs

Position

Christopher has a mixed public law, property and planning practice.

Christopher advises and represents clients at all levels from the Supreme Court to the First-tier Tribunal.

Christopher has particular experience in public inquiries. Most notably he currently represents 156 subpostmaster Core Participants in the Post Office Horizon IT public inquiry. He has also represented core institutional and complainant core participants in IICSA and the Brook House Inquiry. In property law, Christopher has acted in a number of cases involving water courses and riparian rights and specialises in this area.

In planning law matters, Christopher has acted in a number of significant public inquiries dealing with compulsory purchase orders and urban regeneration schemes. He acted for the objectors to a regeneration scheme in the Aylesbury Estate CPO Public Inquiry. He also acts in relation to judicial and statutory review of planning decisions.

Education

Memberships 

• Planning and Environmental Bar

• Property Bar Association

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