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Georgina Fenton

020 7421 1337 gfenton@landmarkchambers.co.uk View profile

Position

Georgie’s practice focuses on public, planning and environmental law. Her public law work includes matters concerning human rights, education, community care, court of protection and immigration. Georgie has extensive experience appearing in SEND hearings and is developing a strong practice in Claimant immigration and asylum matters.

Her notable work includes:

• Junior Counsel alongside Miranda Butler and Hannah Gibbs to Fiona Scolding KC instructed by Leigh Day representing 300 core participants in the Infected Blood Inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and 1980s. Georgie drafted a substantial section of the final submissions on behalf of the Leigh Day core participants.
• Acting as sole counsel for the AIRE Centre to successfully win an appeal in the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal against a decision taken by the SSWP to refuse a Slovakian national and victim of modern slavery universal credit on the grounds that he did not have a qualifying right to reside.
• Representing a local authority in Court of Protection proceedings regarding the ongoing care arrangements for a service user
• Acting as sole counsel in a number of planning inquiry appeals on grounds A, C, D and F concerning applications for CLEU and enforcement notices.
• Representing both Claimants and local authorities in a number of Special Educational Needs and Disability hearings in the First-tier Tribunal regarding sections B, F and I of a child’s Education Healthcare Plan.
• Drafting judicial review grounds for the Environmental Law Foundation to challenge the revocation of an Environmental Traffic Regulation Order. The grounds were later successful in the High Court (R. (Keyhole Bridge User Safety Group) v Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council [2021] EWHC 3082 (Admin)).

Georgie regularly contributes to Landmark’s Health and Social Care blog and has had an article published in Judicial Review concerning Fratila and another v SSWP [2021] UKSC 53. Georgie has also delivered training to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants on Asylum Law and Practice.

Prior to starting pupillage, Georgie was a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal to Lord Justice Lindblom and assisted on a variety of planning cases. Most notably, Georgie assisted with the writing of the judgment for the Heathrow Airport expansion case, which was the first significant ruling in the world on the Paris Climate Agreement (R. (on the application of Plan B Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWCA Civ 214).

Prior to and during her legal studies, Georgie volunteered with Communities Empowerment Network, Reprieve and Citizens Advice.

In her spare time, Georgie plays netball and volunteers with Refugee Community Kitchen and West London Welcome.

Memberships

• Administrative Law Bar Association
• Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
• Planning and Environmental Bar Association

Education

• The University of Law – Bar Professional Training Course (Very Competent)
• University of Law – Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction)
• University of Durham (Collingwood College) – BA in English Literature (First)

Personal

Awards

• 2019: Resolution of Disputes out of Court Prize, The University of Law
• 2018: The Lord Justice Holker Scholarship for the BPTC, Gray’s Inn
• 2016: Honorary Life Membership Award from Collingwood College, Durham University