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39 Essex Chambers
39essex.com 39essex.comBarristers
Richard Wald
- Phone020 7832 1111
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Position
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).
Education
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).