39 Essex Chambers

Barrister specialising in all areas of environmental, planning, compulsory purchase, administrative and local government law. Key reported cases include: R (Hillingdon) v SSfT [2010] EWCH 626 (Admin) (JR of the government’s support for a third runway at Heathrow); Morgan v Hinton Organics [2009] EWCA Civ 107 (Aarhus Convention and apparent bias); Sumption v Greenwich LBC [2007] EWHC 2776 (Admin) (JR of decision to certify as lawful development within the curtilage of a listed building); Sole v SSTI [2007] 1527 (Admin) (challenge to the Olympics CPO); National Anti-vivisection Society v FSS [2004] EWHC 2074 (Admin) (challenge to consent for a non-human primate research facility in the green belt). Key public enquiries include: Admiral Nelson Public House, Falmouth (HSE objection to redevelopment on ammonium nitrate safety grounds; Baumber, Langham, Triton Knoll and Enifer Downs windfarm Inquiries (Appeals against refusals re 7, 5, 333 and 6 turbine windfarm proposals in Lincolnshire and Kent).

Called 1997, Gray’s Inn; Gray’s In Prince of Wales Scholar 1998; Judicial Assistant to Schiemann LJ and the Chief Justice of Israel (as a Pegasus Scholar) 2000; appointed to AG’s C Panel of Counsel to the Crown (criminal list) 2001; appointed to AG’s B Panel of Counsel to the Crown (civil list) 2009; Accredited Mediator 2011; co-author of Butterworth’s ‘Highways Law & Practice’ (2002); general editor of Sweet & Maxwell’s ‘Encyclopedia of Environmental Law’; contributor to Butterworth’s ‘EIA: Law and Practice’ second edition (forthcoming).

Fluent Spanish, good French, working German.

Administrative Law Bar Association; Bar European Group; Planning and Environment Bar Association; United Kingdom Environmental Law Association.

Magdalen College School, Oxford; University of Edinburgh (1994 MA Hons Spanish and European History 1st class with distinction); City University, London (1996 CPE); King’s College, London (1996 Diploma in EC Law).

Tennis, squash, cycling.