Gemma Dudley > HCR Hewitsons > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
HCR Hewitsons Offices

50-60 Station Road
CB1 2JH
England
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Gemma Dudley

Position
Legal Director
Career
Gemma specialises in both contentious and non-contentious planning law, including planning applications and appeals, certificates of lawfulness, highways and planning agreements and enforcement matters. She also has experience of bringing and defending High Court challenges, including Judicial Review, and regularly undertakes advocacy at public inquiries. Gemma also advises in relation to the compulsory acquisition of land and liquor and gaming licence applications.
Memberships
Gemma read law at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University before completing her legal practice course at the College of Law in London. She trained as a solicitor at Nabarro in London, qualifying into their planning team in September 2003. Gemma joined Hewitsons’ Planning and Environment Team in February 2006.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Planning and environment
(Leading individuals)The planning, highways and environment practice at HCR Hewitsons provides ‘a tailored service from a very polite and helpful team‘. The firm handles large-scale residential and mixed use development projects across East Anglia and beyond, and it has a broad landowner client base that includes farmers, investment owners and landed estates. Gemma Dudley is the key practitioner in Cambridge and she provides ‘clear, thoughtful advice which delivers practical solutions to complex issues‘. She acted for Hill Residential Limited in the negotiation of a Section 106 Agreement for an appeal in relation to a development of 576 dwellings in Stevenage. Senior associate Brendon Lee is ‘a true credit to the profession and a valuable asset‘.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals - East Anglia > Real estate > Planning and environment
- Planning and environment - East Anglia > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Employment > Health and safety
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms