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Jenny Wigley KC
Position
Jenny’s practice is focused on planning and environmental law and non-domestic rating (local government tax).
Jenny appears regularly in planning inquiries and in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in judicial review and statutory review claims including those related to climate change, adequate consultation, legitimate expectation, water, heritage, Habitats Regulations, EIA, SEA, air quality, s.106 obligations and conditions, the GPDO, enforcement, interpretation of policy and adequacy of reasons.
Of notable interest, Jenny represented the successful claimant in the statutory review challenge to all the Green Belt allocations in the Leeds Site Allocations Plan. She also recently represented a community interest group in four successful High Court challenges relating to the protection of a local playing field.
Jenny represents developers, public interest groups, campaign groups, local authorities and central government agencies. She is currently advising a large unitary local authority in defending refusals of applications by HS2 under Schedule 17 of the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017. She is also representing National Highways in the High Court in statutory reviews of highway schemes. Additionally, she advises in relation to DCOs. Jenny has also recently represented hotel owners and Government contractors in successful High Court injunction proceedings (both defending against an application for a planning injunction and obtaining an injunction against protesters) relating to the emergency housing of asylum seekers.
On the non-domestic rating side, her practice includes cases in the Valuation Tribunal, Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and the Higher Courts, including in the landmark Divisional Court cases concerning empty rates relief (Makro, Kenya Aid, Digital Pipeline, Pall Mall and Public Health England). She recently represented the ratepayer in a case concerning the valuation of museums (Hughes (VO) v. Tyne & Wear Museums and Archives [2022] UKUT 206 (LC)) and she represented the Valuation Officer in the leading case concerning the valuation of tenant’s fit-out works in commercial offices (Bunyan (VO) v. Acenden Limited [2023] UKUT 17 (LC)).
Jenny was formerly a solicitor at Stephenson Harwood.
Memberships
- Administrative Law Bar Association
- Planning and Environmental Bar Association
Education
- MA (Hons) (Cantab) (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Publications- Joint Editor of Ryde on Rating and the Council Tax (2003 – 2023)
- Contributor to Atkins Court Forms (rating section)
- Contributor to Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (rating section)
- Articles in the JPEL and Planning Magazine
Personal
Awards
- The Planner’s Women of Influence for 2021
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Planning
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Jenny Wigley KC –Landmark Chambers ‘Jenny is technically exceptional – her eye for detail and ability to analyse huge amounts of information and hone in on the relevant points is second-to-none. She’s practical, approachable, clients love her. She is great on her feet, firmly and determinedly holds her own even in front of unsympathetic judges and wins the day.’
London Bar > Local government (including rating law)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jenny Wigley KC – Landmark Chambers ‘Great attention to detail and ability to methodically argue a case.’
Landmark Chambers is expert in all matters of local government law, particularly in ratings law. Dan Kolinsky KC, the ‘go-to’ silk on business rates matters, successfully represented Nuffield Health in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in Nuffield Health v London Borough of Merton, a case concerning whether a fitness centre, operated by a charity as a chargeable service, qualified for mandatory charitable rates relief. Jenny Wigley KC represented a museum in Allen (VO) v Tyne and Wear Museums Service, a case examining the valuation of museums and galleries.