Francis Taylor Building

Planning Environment Infrastructure

Isabella is a leading junior at the Planning Bar, described in the legal directories as “one of the best juniors for planning JRs at the Bar…with excellent drafting skills and superb in court”; "Really impressive, amazingly hard-working and destined for great things."

She is consistently ranked in the top ten junior barristers in the Planning Magazine survey where she has also been recognised as one of the top ten ‘sector leading’ barristers in the field of infrastructure.

Isabella advises widely on all aspects of planning and infrastructure law and has particular expertise in housing, compulsory acquisition and nationally significant infrastructure projects. She has a busy inquiry and infrastructure practice, both promoting and resisting all forms of development and has appeared in numerous reported cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal. She acts for major companies; housebuilders; public authorities and individuals. Notable clients include bp; National Grid; Dong Energy; the GLA and several London authorities.

Buchanan Prize, Lincoln's Inn, 2009 Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding), The College of Law, 2009 Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), The College of Law, 2007 Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn, 2007 Lord Brougham Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn, 2006 Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln's Inn, 2006 BA(Hons) Modern History (II.I) , St Catherine's College, Oxford University, 2004 St Catherine's College Scholarship, 2001

Spanish

Member of PEBA Member of NIPA Member of the CPA Member of the Denning Society, Lincoln's Inn

Buchanan Prize, Lincoln's Inn, 2009 Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding), The College of Law, 2009 Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), The College of Law, 2007 Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn, 2007 Lord Brougham Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn, 2006 Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln's Inn, 2006 BA(Hons) Modern History (II.I) , St Catherine's College, Oxford University, 2004 St Catherine's College Scholarship, 2001