27 11 2024
Housing appeal allowed in Hertfordshire Green Belt
She acts for a wide range of public and private sector clients, including housebuilders, land promoters, central government, local authorities and residents’ groups.
Isabella is ranked in Planning Resource Magazine’s annual survey of top-rated juniors under 35 and top-rated juniors overall. Her recent planning, environmental and compulsory purchase work includes:
Isabella’s public law work includes:
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 been ranked second in Planning Magazine’s list of top-rated junior planning barristers under-35 and its list of top-rated juniors overall.
She has experience of promoting and objecting to complex schemes in sensitive locations, including London tall buildings and residential development in the Green Belt.
Isabella’s inquiry experience includes:
Isabella has appeared as a junior and as sole counsel in High Court planning challenges, including:
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, Permitted Development Rights, Neighbourhood Plans, and Enforcement Notices.
Isabella is building a broad environmental practice.
She recently acted (unled) for a community group challenging the grant of planning permission for a sewage pumping station on EIA grounds (R (Llandaff North Residents’ Association) v Cardiff Council and others [2023] EWHC 1731 (Admin)) and is currently acting for agricultural businesses objecting to the revocation of their groundwater abstraction licences by the Environment Agency (led by David Forsdick 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.
Isabella is building a broad public law practice, acting for claimants, defendants and interested parties.
She recently acted for the Lord Chancellor in the Law Society’s challenge to the Government’s response to the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid (R (Law Society of England and Wales) v Lord Chancellor [2024] EWHC 155 (Admin)), led by Sir James Eadie KC, Catherine Dobson and Adam Boukraa.
Isabella welcomes instructions in the Court of Protection. She is currently instructed as a junior (to Vikram Sachdeva KC and Catherine Dobson) in a case concerning the statutory test for capacity, which is due to be heard by the Court of Appeal in May 2024 (An NHS Trust v ST [2023] EWCOP 40).
Before joining Landmark, Isabella spent nearly two years as the Judicial Assistant to the President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed. She gained experience of a wide range of public law and human rights issues during that time, 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 six 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
27 11 2024
Housing appeal allowed in Hertfordshire Green Belt
Full Presentation
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100 Days of Labour: A Planning Law and Policy Perspective - full presentation
Hashi Mohamed, Russell Harris KC, Rupert Warren KC, and Isabella Buono
inquiry
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290 homes allowed on appeal in Sittingbourne
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New appointments to the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
blog
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cases
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Court of Appeal clarifies requirement for appropriate assessment in multi-stage consents
Full Presentation
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Flood Risk and the Sequential Test - full presentation
Richard Turney KC, Zack Simons, Isabella Buono, and Charles Bishop
Academic scholarships and prizes
Mooting
Appointed to the Attorney General's C Panel of Junior Counsel.
‘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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