Michael Humphries specialises in all aspects of property development law, but is particularly well known for his major infrastructure planning and compulsory purchase and compensation work, where he has acted in relation to some of the largest and most important projects in recent years. Michael has acted for and advised utilities, developers, landowners and objectors, as well as central and local government. Michael also has an extensive compulsory purchase inquiry and Lands Chamber practice.
Michael was the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Environment and Planning Silk of the year in 2013 and 2021. In the Chambers and Partners UK Bar online guide 2022 he was the highest ranked London Planning Silk. He is always one of the highest rated planning barristers in the annual Planning Magazine Law Survey and has been the highest ranked infrastructure planning silk every year that the survey has been undertaken.
Michael was a Senior Visiting Fellow in the University of Cambridge Land Economy Department where he delivered an annual lecture on infrastructure planning.
Called to the Bar: 1982 King's Counsel: 2003 Bencher of the Inner Temple: 2010
Treasurer of National Infrastructure Planning Association Committee member of the Joint Planning Law Conference (i.e. the Oxford Planning Conference) Past-Chair and current governor of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute Past-Treasurer of the Compulsory Purchase Association
Chiltern Edge School; University of Leicester (LLB); Inns of Court School of Law.
Classical music; time with family in France – married with three children.