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High Court dismisses challenges to government’s use of former airfields to accommodate asylum seekers
She acts for a wide range of public and private sector clients, including housebuilders, land promoters, local authorities and private individuals.
Isabella’s recent cases include:
Before joining Landmark, Isabella spent nearly two years as the Judicial Assistant to the President of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Reed of Allermuir. At the Supreme Court, Isabella gained experience of a wide range of issues across her main areas of practice, including in:
Alongside her practice, Isabella teaches EU Law at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. She has taught EU Law at Cambridge since 2017 and was elected as a Bye-Fellow of St Edmund’s in 2021.
Isabella has a broad planning practice, covering a full range of court, inquiry and advisory work. She has experience of promoting and resisting complex schemes in sensitive locations, including London tall buildings and residential development in the Green Belt.
Isabella’s inquiry experience includes:
Isabella’s court experience includes:
Isabella provides advice to clients at all stages of the planning process, from pre-app through to court challenge. Her recent instructions have covered a wide range of issues, including Lawful Development Certificates, Environmental Impact Assessments, Neighbourhood Plans, and Enforcement Notices. She has also:
Isabella has been instructed as a junior in a number of claims for judicial review, acting for claimants, defendants and interested parties. This includes claims concerned with the funding of NHS trusts, the regulation of onshore fracking, and the compensation scheme for sub-postmasters affected by the Post Office Horizon scandal.
During her time as a Judicial Assistant at the Supreme Court, Isabella gained experience of a wide range of public law and human rights issues, including in:
Isabella has a particular interest in public law claims with a retained EU law dimension, having taught the undergraduate course in EU law at various colleges of the University of Cambridge over the last five years. Before coming to the Bar, Isabella also spent a year as a Research Assistant at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, where her work focused on the principal legislation which now governs the relationship between UK and EU law: the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
Isabella is building a broad environmental practice, covering Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Habitats issues in particular.
She is currently acting for a number of farmers objecting to the revocation of their groundwater abstraction licences by the Environment Agency, led by Tim Mould KC.
Isabella gained experience of a range of environmental law matters during her time as a Judicial Assistant at the Supreme Court, including in:
Isabella has a particular interest in environmental cases with a retained EU law dimension, having taught the undergraduate course in EU law at various colleges of the University of Cambridge over the last five years. Before coming to the Bar, Isabella also spent a year as a Research Assistant at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, where her work focused on the principal legislation which now governs the relationship between UK and EU law: the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
Cases
High Court dismisses challenges to government’s use of former airfields to accommodate asylum seekers
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02 11 2023
High Court hears argument on legality of decisions to use former airfields to accommodate…
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16 10 2023
Landmark planning barristers appear in seven of the top ten planning decisions of the summer
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09 10 2023
Appeal allowed for 100% affordable housing scheme in Tower Hamlets
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17 07 2023
High Court grants permission for Wethersfield and Scampton asylum accommodation challenges
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23 06 2023
Court of Appeal dismisses RAF Wethersfield s. 187B appeal
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16 06 2023
Planning Magazine’s Law Survey 2023 features 36 Landmark barristers
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12 06 2023
Court of Appeal hears RAF Wethersfield s. 187B appeal
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‘The Northern Ireland Protocol: Choppy Waters Lie Ahead’ (2022) 27(3) Judicial Review 271
‘Enforcing Tribunal Decisions: Where there’s bark there’s bite?’ (2021) 17(6) Freedom of Information 4
‘“All cards are on the table”: disclosure obligations and the Independent Review of Administrative Law’ (2021) 17(5) Freedom of Information 4
From the stroke of midnight: EU judgments on access to environmental information – still relevant in a post-Brexit UK?’ (2021) 17(4) Freedom of Information 4
‘‘Fine words butter no parsnips’ – how is open justice delivered?’ (2021) 17(3) Freedom of Information 4
‘What remains of the public/private divide? Mixed messages on the meaning of ‘public authority’’ (2020) 17(2) Freedom of Information 4
‘FOIA: the terminus of information rights?’ (2020) 17(1) Freedom of Information 4
Contributing author to P. Coppel, Information Rights: A Practitioner’s Guide to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and other Information Rights (5th ed, Hart, 2020) (five chapters dealing with exemptions to rights of access to information and data protection post-Brexit)
Atkin’s Court Forms, Volume 40(1), Trespass to the Person (LexisNexis, 2019)
‘Costs in Judicial Review Proceedings: Determining Success’ (2018) 23(3) Judicial Review 145
‘Mass Surveillance in the CJEU: Forging a European Consensus’ (2017) 76(2) Cambridge Law Journal 250 (co-authored with A. Taylor)
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