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Position
Public law including judicial review, local government (incorporating local government finance), human rights, education, environment, social services, social security, planning, immigration and asylum law. Interesting cases include: R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions ex parte Holdings & Barnes Plc; ex parte Premier Leisure; ex parte Alconbury Developments Ltd v General Assurance Society [2001] UKHL 23; 2 All ER 929 (HL); Horvath v Home Secretary [2001] 1AC489; Magill v Dame Shirley Porter and Weeks [2001] UKH 67; 2 AC 357 (HL); R (on the application of Transport for London) v London Underground [2002]; (Aggregate Industries) v English Nature and the Secretary of State [2003] Env LR 3; Aufrijeva v The Secretary of State [2003] UKHL 36; The Chagos Islanders v The Attorney General and The Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory [2004] EWCA Civ 997, [2003] EWHC 2222 (QB); R v Searby [2003] EWCA Crim 1910; R v Barnet LBC ex parte G; R v Lambeth ex parte Walker [2003] UKHL 57; Patrick Fisher v English Nature [2005] 1 WLR 147 CA; Case C-440/00 R v Environment Agency ex parte Mayer Parry Recycling Ltd [2004]; 1 WLR 538 ECJ; Sepet and Bulbul v Secretary of State [2003] UKHL 15; Knight v Nicholls & Sparke [2004] 1 WLR 1653; R (Trowler & Marina Ltd) v SS Environment [2004] EWCA Civ 1580; R (Roma Rights) v Immigration Officer (1) Home Secretary (2) [2005] 2 AC 1; Ruscillo/Truscott v Council for Regulation of Health Care Professionals [2004] EWCA Civ 1356; Hinchy v Secretary of State [2005] UKHL 16; Oakley Inc v The Secretary of State [2005] EWCA Civ 1191; B v The Secretary of State [2005] EWCA Civ 929; Mersey Care NHS Trust v Colonel Munjaz [2005] UKHL 58; R (Carson and Reynolds) v The Secretary of Sate [2005] UKHL 37; R (Bancoult) v The Foreign Secretary [2007] EWCA Civ 498, 3 WLR 768; R (Solvent Resource) v Environment Agency [2006] EWHC 3023; Couronne & Ors and Bontemps & Ors v Secretary of state for Work and Pensions [2007] EWCA Civ 1086; R (RMP) v Brent LBC and Ors [2008] EWHC 692 (Admin); R (OSS Group Ltd) v the Environment Agency [2007] EWCA 611.
Career
Called 1979, Middle Temple; QC 1993; Recorder 2005.
Member
Chairman Administrative Law Bar Association; Planning and Environmental Bar Association.
Education
Brighton College; Queen’s College, Oxford.
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Environment; Local government
