Toby Fisher

year of call: 2008

tfisher@landmarkchambers.co.uk

areas of law

Practice Summary

Toby has particular interests in public, human rights and environmental law, but accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers practice. In October 2011, he was appointed as junior counsel to the Leveson Inquiry, a judicial inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press, following the News International ‘phone hacking’ scandal.

Public law

Toby has a wide ranging public law and judicial review practice. He has appeared at all levels up to the Court of Appeal in immigration and asylum, mental health, education, community care, environmental and social security matters. He also advises on a wide range of public law issues, including local government, gypsy and housing matters. For further information, please click here.

Environmental and Planning law

Toby appears in the High Court on statutory planning appeals and judicial reviews. He is also regularly instructed at planning inquiries, and has particular experience in inquiries and legal challenges where energy and/or waste policy is central. He advises on a wide range of environmental and planning issues, including the application of the Waste Framework Directive, the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. He also has experience in applications for registration of village greens under the Commons Act 2006. For further information, please click here.

Property law

Toby is regularly instructed in both commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters in the County Court.

Pro Bono and Media Work

Toby has a busy pro-bono aspect to his practice. He is a volunteer barrister for Bail for Immigration Detainees and for the Environmental Law Foundation, and provides telephone advice on human rights issues for Liberty. Prior to commencing practice, he spent six months acting for prisoners on death row in Sierra Leone.

Toby is the legal advisor on the BBC Radio 4 programme Unreliable Evidence and was associate producer of The Legal World on the BBC World Service. He is a trustee of Dramatic Need, a charity providing arts education to under-privileged communities in Rwanda and South Africa. Prior to coming to the Bar, he was a professional actor in film, television and theatre.

QUALIFICATIONS

Toby was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, graduating with double first class honours in Social and Political Sciences.

He studied law at City University, London, and undertook an LLM in Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, achieving distinctions in both. He was awarded a Lord Mansfield Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn.

 

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