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Catherine Dobson has a broad practice which combines general public law, regulatory and environmental law.

She was called to the Bar in 2009 and since then has been instructed in some of the leading cases in these fields, including Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal (the leading Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ouster clauses), R (Miller) v The Prime Minister (challenging the prorogation of Parliament on behalf of the Shadow Attorney General, R (Friends of the Earth) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (acting from Friends of the Earth in two successful challenges to the Government’s Net Zero Challenge and Carbon Budget Delivery Plan) and R (London Borough of Hillingdon and others) v Secretary of State for Transport (challenging the Government’s decision to support a third runway at Heathrow Airport).

Catherine has been ranked as a leading junior for several years by Chambers & Partners. She is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel and the Attorney General’s Public International Law C Panel of Counsel.

Catherine has been ranked as a leading junior for several years by Chambers & Partners. She is a member of the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel and the Attorney General’s Public International Law C Panel of Counsel.

In 2020 Catherine was named Environmental and Planning Law Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards.

Catherine is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where she supervises constitutional law.