Gwion Lewis

year of call: 2005

glewis@landmarkchambers.co.uk

areas of law

Practice Summary

Gwion Lewis was called to the Bar in 2005 and specialises in environmental, planning, public and language law. He has a particular interest in the human rights and EU law aspects of these areas.

He has appeared as an advocate at all levels up to the Court of Appeal and has extensive experience of judicial review proceedings and planning inquiries. He was also part of the team of Landmark Counsel that promoted the Crossrail project in Parliament.

Since 2009, he has been a member of both the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel of Junior Counsel and the Welsh Government’s Panel of Junior Counsel. The most recent edition of the directory Legal 500 recommended Gwion as a specialist in planning law (“very promising with a bright future ahead of him”). In April 2009, at the age of 29, the Planning Magazine Legal Survey named him as the second highest rated planning barrister in England and Wales under the age of 35.

Gwion is a founder member and Assistant Director of the Landmark Chambers Centre for Environmental Law.

For further details about Gwion’s areas of expertise, please click on the links below:

Environmental law
Planning law
Public law
Language law

QUALIFICATIONS

Gwion is a former US-UK Fulbright Scholar and has an LLM from New York University specializing in international human rights, language rights and the interface between law and security. This led to his appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence where he pursued his interest in language rights in EU law.

Prior to studying abroad, Gwion was a Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA and a BCL (First Class) in Jurisprudence. Whilst studying for the BCL, he focused on English and French public law, human rights, international dispute settlement and the public international law of the sea. During his time at Oxford, Gwion won several prizes for his performance in examinations on administrative law, public international law, criminal law and Roman law, and was awarded the Welson Prize for the most promising law student at Jesus College. He is also a former winner of the Oxford-Cambridge Intervarsity Mooting Competition.

During the BVC, Gwion was a Bedingfield Scholar of Gray’s Inn and a Sankey Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford. He has lectured in law at the University of Wales and regularly gives seminars, in the UK and abroad, on language rights in UK, EU and US law.

Gwion is a founder member and Assistant Director of the Landmark Chambers Centre for Environmental Law.

Gwion is Welsh-English bilingual, has good French and is a certified upper-intermediate (B2) Italian speaker (University of Siena, CILS, 2011).

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