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Planning, infrastructure planning, compulsory purchase and compensation, envrionmental law.

Michael Fry is an administrative and public law barrister with a strong specialism in planning and environmental law. He is ranked consistently in the leading legal directories and legal publications.

Michael is particularly well known for his major infrastructure planning work and his cutting-edge injunction practice. In the past year, Michael has appeared in the Supreme Court, several Court of Appeal hearings, promoted three Development Consent Orders, acted in over 30 judicial reviews, appeared in numerous planning hearings and inquiries, secured an anti-trespass injunctions over the land required for the HS2 Scheme and the M25 and Kent motorways and A roads, and committed to prison a number of people found in contempt of court.

Michael is instructed regularly to lead teams of junior counsel and solicitors. He practiced previously as an employed barrister at a global elite law firm for 5 years, and has also spent a 9 month secondment in house, so understands the pressures and level of service required by professional and lay clients.

He is currently a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel, in which role he has delivered advice directly to Secretaries of State and Ministers in conference.

Called to the bar in 2011.

PEBA (Planning and Environmental Law Bar Association) NIPA (National Infrastructure Planning Association) CPA (Compulsory Purchase Association) SAL (Society of Asian Lawyers)

Michael holds a MA (Hons) in Social and Political Sciences from Christ's College, Cambridge. He was graded Outstanding on the Bar Professional Training Course, and received a Commendation for his Graduate Diploma in Law. He is a Major Scholar and Exhibitioner of the Inner Temple and received a BPTC Outstanding Award.

Michael completed the commissioning course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and holds a City and Guild Graduateship in Leadership and Management.

Before starting his career at the Bar, Michael was an Army officer for almost a decade, serving in the Blues & Royals. He continued in the Army Reserve for a further four years. Michael is a governor of the Marsh Academy in Kent, and a trustee of the Neurofibromatosis Association. He is a liveryman of the Skinner's Company.

Michael had a wide variety of roles before joining the Army, including running nightclubs, analysing public policy and working as a lobbyist.