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Mark Westmoreland Smith KC KC
Position
Mark’s practice focuses on nationally significant infrastructure projects and other strategic developments such as large-scale housing, urban extensions, waste management facilities, electricity generation stations, including renewables, and grid infrastructure, and transport projects as well as compulsory purchase orders, compensation and land valuation.
Mark acts on behalf of the developers, the Government, local planning authorities and third parties. He advises and represents his clients at all stages of the process from strategic advice at the inception of a project to appearing at planning inquiries and in the High Court or Court of Appeal. Mark’s time on the Government A Panel means he has been involved in some of the most important planning and infrastructure cases. Mark has recently been at the forefront of the climate change/ net zero litigation acting in some of the most important climate change cases of recent times.
Mark was appointed King’s Counsel in March 2024. Before then, Mark was consistently ranked as a top planning junior in Planning magazine’s annual survey of barristers and was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.
Career
- Date of Call – October 2006 (Lincoln’s Inn)
- BPP, London, September 2005 – BVC, graduated in the top ten of year
- City University, London, September 2004 – CPE, Distinction
- University of Manchester, 1995-1998 – First Class Honours in History of Modern Art, graduated top of year
Memberships
- Planning and Environment Bar Association (Assistant Secretary)
- National Infrastructure Planning Association
- United Kingdom Environmental Law Association
- Compulsory Purchase Association
- Constitutional & Administrative Law Bar Association
Education
- Date of Call – October 2006 (Lincoln’s Inn)
- BPP, London, September 2005 – BVC, graduated in the top ten of year
- City University, London, September 2004 – CPE, Distinction
- University of Manchester, 1995-1998 – First Class Honours in History of Modern Art, graduated top of year