Chambers is renowned for its expertise in all areas of public law, with extensive experience of judicial review and similar statutory challenges and appeals.
Chambers is renowned for its expertise in all areas of public law, with public law issues arising in nearly all of Chambers’ specialist practice areas. Members have extensive experience advising in relation to public law decisions, as well as challenging or defending those decisions in judicial review and similar statutory challenges and appeals.
Members of the team regularly act both for and against public authorities. Chambers’ broad client base includes government departments, local authorities, individuals, corporations, charitable bodies, and other public and private bodies including NGOs.
Chambers’ public law expertise spans a range of specialist areas, including the following:
• Commercial regulation
• Competition
• Education
• Equality law
• EU Law
• Human rights and civil liberties
• Immigration
• Licensing
• Local authority powers and finance
• Planning and environment
• Police and prison law
• Public procurement
• Social welfare and community care
The public law and judicial review team prides itself on its ability to field the right barrister or team to bring or defend any public law challenge, if necessary at very short notice.
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Dec' 21R (on application of London Borough of Hillingdon) v The Mayor of London [2021] EWHC 3387 (Admin)
Lang J hands down judgment on a claim for judicial review based on grounds relating to: the interpretation of tall buildings policy in the London Plan; the alleged failure to take into account air quality evidence; and procedural fairness.
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Dec' 20Victory for Anglian Water in Bathing Water Quality Judicial Review
Anglian Water Services Limited have succeeded in their judicial review of the Environment Agency’s classification of a number of popular Lincolnshire bathing waters within Anglian Water’s region under the Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2013. The bathing waters at Cleethorpes, Humberston Fitties and Ingoldmells South beaches had all formerly been classed as “excellent” but were downgraded to merely “good” after the Environment Agency included samples in their annual assessment of bathing water quality which had been taken in June 2019 at a time of torrential rain and flooding.
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