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A standout setChambers & Partners
- Meet the team
- Paul Brown QC (Joint Head of Chambers)
- Reuben Taylor QC (Joint Head of Chambers)
- Christopher Lockhart-Mummery QC
- Richard Drabble QC
- David Elvin QC
- Neil King QC
- Rhodri Price Lewis QC
- Timothy Corner QC
- Russell Harris QC
- Tim Mould QC
- Neil Cameron QC
- John Litton QC
- Rupert Warren QC
- Sasha White QC
- Christopher Boyle QC
- James Maurici QC
- David Forsdick QC
- Dan Kolinsky QC
- Matthew Reed QC
- Graeme Keen QC
- Robert Walton QC
- Tim Buley QC
- Scott Lyness QC
- David Blundell QC
- Eian Caws
- Simon Pickles
- David Smith
- Stephen Morgan
- Richard Langham
- Nicholas Taggart
- Christopher Jacobs
- Camilla Lamont
- Carine Patry
- Stephen Whale
- Katherine Olley
- Guy Williams
- Jenny Wigley
- Alex Goodman
- Gwion Lewis
- Richard Moules
- Sasha Blackmore
- Jonathan Wills
- James Neill
- Jacqueline Lean
- Richard Turney
- Zack Simons
- Katie Helmore
- Andrew Parkinson
- Andrew Byass
- Leon Glenister
- Heather Sargent
- Alistair Mills
- Yaaser Vanderman
- Matthew Dale-Harris
- Matthew Fraser
- Luke Wilcox
- Anjoli Foster
- Admas Habteslasie
- Hannah Gibbs
- Matthew Henderson
- Ben Fullbrook
- Nicholas Grant
- Joel Semakula
- Alex Shattock
- Kimberley Ziya
- Joe Thomas
- Environment
- Access to Environmental Information
- Air Quality
- Climate Change and Emissions Trading
- Contaminated Land
- Energy
- Environmental Appeals and Inquiries
- Environmental Enforcement Action
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Environmental Permitting
- EU Environmental Law and Regulation
- Flooding and Drainage
- Fracking
- International Environmental Work
- Judicial Review
- Landscape and Countryside
- Marine Planning and Harbour Orders
- Pollution and Regulatory Issues
- Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Village Greens, Commons and Manorial Rights
- Waste
- Water Law
- Wildlife and Habitats
- Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
Landmark is consistently recognised as one of the top sets for environmental law and is ranked in the top tier by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. Chambers & Partners 2018 states that we are “[a] standout set… Members are a popular choice among large corporate clients and government bodies, and regularly appear in judicial reviews, statutory appeals and inquiries.”
We regularly act for government, regulators, industry, corporate clients and private individuals and groups on wide ranging issue relating to air quality, access to environmental justice (including Aarhus Convention proceedings), waste, contaminated land, pollution, climate change, emissions trading, environmental permitting and regulation (including the marine environment), environmental assessment, energy (including renewables), environmental information, utilities, habitats and species protection, nuisance and issues relating to access to the countryside, commons and village greens.
Members of Landmark led all the parties involved in the challenge to the Government’s proposals for HS2 up to the Supreme Court (R (Buckinghamshire CC) v Secretary of State for Transport), environmental assessment at every level including in the European Court, and proceedings before the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention. We also acted in the recent fracking appeals in the Court of Appeal (Preston New Road Action Group v Secretary of State), the dispute over tyre burning at Rugby Cement Works (the permitting, environmental assessment and Aarhus costs aspects – R (Edwards) v Environment Agency) and contaminated land including the second ever appeal against a remediation notice under the contaminated land provisions in Part II A of the EPA 1990.
Landmark takes an active role in UKELA (one of our associate members, Lord Carnwath, is its President) and regularly provides speakers to its annual conferences and a number of members contribute to Garner’s Environmental Law.
- Recent Cases
- Court of Appeal answers the question: When must an unsuccessful litigant accept ‘No’ for an answer?
- Court orders remittal of all Leeds Green Belt housing allocations
- Successful Legal Challenge to Leeds Site Allocations Plan
- High Court quashes EIA screening direction in respect of site previously used to dispose of BSE-infected cattle
- R (Plan B Earth, Friends of the Earth, London Borough of Hillingdon & others) v. Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWCA Civ 214