Edwin Simpson

Barrister specialising in appearing at public inquiries and applications for judicial and statutory review and advising on all aspects of such work; has particular expertise in highway and village green matters, and acts as a non-statutory inspector at public inquiries into the latter, as well as appearing on behalf of both users and landowners; teaches trusts law and taxation at Christ Church, Oxford; vice-chair Oxford Student Disciplinary Panel. Recent cases include R (Godmanchester and Drain) v Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs [2008] AC 221 (HL) (meaning of the proviso to section 31, HA 1980); R (Newhaven) v East Sussex CC [2015] UKSC 7 (an attempt to register a beach as a village green); and R (Andrews) v SS for for Environment [2015] EWCA Civ 669 (modern effect of Inclosure awards).