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Douglas Edwards KC practices in the fields of town and country planning, infrastructure, compulsory purchase, environment, administrative and local government, highway law and the law of easements and restrictive covenants.

He is acknowledged as one of the leading silks at the planning bar and a recognised expert in the law relating to common land and town/village greens.

He appears regularly for both appellants and local planning and other authorities at inquiries and in the courts.

Douglas Edwards was elected a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 2017, and is a member of the Inn's Estates Committee.

He was appointed as a Crown Court Recorder in 2019, and, as such, sits as a Judge in courts in London and on the South Eastern Circuit.

He has served as an assistant Parliamentary boundary commissioner and as lead assistant commissioner for the East Midlands region. In that capacity, his role has involved holding hearing and considering representations into proposals to modify Parliamentary constituency boundaries.