Criminal Planning Matters
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
- Criminal Planning Matters
- Development Contracts and Overage
- Development Plans and other planning policy
- Energy
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Flooding and Drainage
- Fracking
- Highways, Footpaths and Rights of Way
- Infrastructure
- Landscape, Agriculture and Countryside
- Marine Planning and Harbour Orders
- Neighbourhood Planning
- Parliamentary Bills
- Planning Advice
- Planning Appeals, Inquiries and Hearings
- Planning Enforcement
- Planning Injunctions
- Planning Judicial and Statutory Reviews
- Section 106 Agreements and Enforcement
- Strategic Environmental Assessment
- State Aid and Procurement
- Transport Orders
- Village Greens, Commons and Manorial Rights
- Wildlife and Habitats
- Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
Barristers act regularly in defending and prosecuting planning and listed building matters in the Magistrates Court, the Crown Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal. As part of the procedures in these cases, Landmark’s barristers advise on and have acted in confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Cases of note in the higher courts include:
- R v Kohali [2016] 1 Cr App. R (S) 30 – dealing with the correct sentencing process in planning enforcement criminal cases involving Proceeds of Crime Act;
- Newham LBC v Miah [2016] EWHC 1043 (Admin) – relating to the validity of an enforcement notice and its service at the prosecution stage;
- R v Ahmed (Mohammed Kamal) [2014] EWCA Crim 1270 – in the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal relating to offences committed after an enforcement notice has been complied with and whether the offence must be charged under s. 181 or can be charged under s.179 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
- Brent London Borough Council v Adilsons Ltd [2010] All E & R (D) 233 – a decision of the Divisional Court overturning the magistrates’ acquittal of an enforcement notice prosecution on the basis of section 180 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.