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Tim Buley KC
Position
Tim is recognised as a leading silk across eight areas in Chambers and Partners 2024 and the Legal 500 2024. Comments about Tim include that he is “clearly one of the most talented public lawyers of his generation of rising silks”, “a great advocate”, and that “when he’s your opposition, your heart sinks because he is so good”.
Tim’s practice covers the full range of public law work, from commercial and regulatory matters, planning and the environment, through constitutional and EU law, local government and healthcare, to civil liberties and human rights, immigration, and social welfare. He is equally experienced acting for and against public bodies, and for commercial interests and individuals. The breadth of his practice is demonstrated by his clients, who include commercial organisations and developers, regulators, individuals, NGOs and pressure groups, most central government departments, devolved administrations, many local authorities, and a wide range of independent and non-departmental public bodies.
Tim has appeared as leading counsel at all levels of the UK court system including numerous appearances in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and Administrative and Planning Courts, as well as in public inquiries and tribunals. He has also appeared in the Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court. He has well over 250 reported cases across his practice areas.
Tim is a Special Advocate and a member of the Welsh Government’s Panel of King’s Counsel and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s Panel of Counsel. Prior to appointment to silk, Tim was a member of the Attorney-General’s A-Panel of junior counsel to the Crown and he continues to act for the government in significant cases. He is Developed Vetted. In Autumn 2022, he was appointed as a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber).
Memberships
- Administrative and Public Bar Association (Executive Committee)
- Bar Pro Bono Unit
- Environmental Law Foundation
- Human Rights Lawyers Association
- Immigration Law Practitioners Association
- JUSTICE
- Liberty
- Planning and Environmental Bar Association
Education
Qualifications
- Tim was a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
- Tim studied law at City University, London, and subsequently undertook an LL.M in Public Law at King’s College, London, achieving distinctions in public law and jurisprudence
Publications
- Joint editor, with Richard Drabble KC and James Maurici KC, of Local Authorities and Human Rights (OUP, 2004)
- Contributor to Supperstone, Goudie and Walker: Judicial Review (3rd Ed, Butterworths, 2005, 4th Ed, 2010, 5th Ed, due 2014)
- Contributed articles to the journal “Judicial Review”, including, “Mandatory Detention” (June 2012)
- Co-author of the section on High Court challenges in the loose-leaf “Garner’s Environmental Law” (published 2014)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Immigration (including business immigration)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Landmark Chambers acts for claimants, NGOs, and the government in leading cases across the High Court, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, leveraging the set’s strengths in public law to expertly handle immigration litigation. David Blundell KC has represented the government across a number of high-profile cases, appearing before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in the ongoing Shamima Begum citizenship revocation litigation, and in the case of R (Howard) v SSHD as to the legality of the good character requirement for naturalisation under the Windrush scheme. Samantha Broadfoot KC and Tim Buley KC are both involved in work around the Rwanda litigation on behalf of refugee and NGO claimants. Richard Drabble KC remains a key figure in this field.