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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

MITRE HOUSE, 160 ALDERSGATE STREET, LONDON, EC1A 4DD, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7367 3000
Fax:
Fax 020 7367 2000
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135316 BARBICAN 2
Web:
www.cms-cmck.com
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Neil Smith

Tel:
Work +44 20 7367 3848
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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

Work Department

Pensions.

Position

Partner in pensions group at CMS Cameron McKenna. Wide experience in dealing with all kinds of pension issues, with a particular focus on contentious pension matters.

Career

Joined McKenna & Co as a trainee in 1993 and has specialised in pensions since qualification in 1995. In 1999 moved to Taylor Wessing where he became a partner in 2002. Rejoined the firm’s pensions group in 2006 as a partner. Associate editor, ‘FT Law & Tax’s Practical Pensions Precedents’.

Languages

French.

Member

Association of Pensions Lawyers (full member).

Education

Haywards Heath Sixth Form College; Leicester University (1991 2(1)).

Leisure

Reading, music, golf, cricket; president of Snakekillers Golf Society.

Practice Areas

Pensions - dispute resolution; Pensions (non contentious)

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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

  • Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

    Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.
    - CMS Group

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