Mr Brendon Moorhouse > Chambers of Stephen Hockman KC and Mark Watson KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Chambers of Stephen Hockman KC and Mark Watson KC
Six Pump Court
TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7AR
England

Career

Brendon Moorhouse is an established environmental, planning and regulatory barrister, acting as both leading counsel and senior-junior counsel in cases throughout England and Wales.

He is regularly instructed in large-scale criminal waste and water cases that include some of the biggest prosecutions in the country.

He is also instructed in significant environmental permitting cases as well as dealing with public inquiry work on projects such as Hinkley C cooling system marine permit conditions, Bristol Airport expansion and the then proposed M4 motorway extension around Newport. He has extensive practical experience dealing with Habitats and Marine Regulation.

Brendon Moorhouse is frequently instructed in planning appeals and enforcement cases including those with wider environmental concerns such as the UK’s largest unlawful AD plant and alleged condition breaches for a gas peaking plant.

Experienced in nuisance cases, he has been instructed to represent clients ranging from a motor manufacturing plant, a power station to a metal smelting plant.

Education

LLB (Hons)

Lawyer Rankings

Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Planning and environment

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1

Brendon MoorhouseSix Pump Court ‘Brendon understand complex incidents and infrastructure quickly and handles with ease difficult and voluminous cases. He has excellent people skills as well as an encyclopedic knowledge of environmental law, especially waste and large water company cases. In court he is calm but incisive and tenacious – a future silk.’ 

London Bar > Environment

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3

Brendon Moorhouse Six Pump Court ‘Brendon is particularly excellent in cases of immense technical complexity. He presents them in a comprehensible narrative.’