Providing an ‘invaluable service to practitioners’, New Square Chambers contains experienced barristers in public inquiry, judicial review and statutory appeals contexts. Members regularly act in cases concerning public rights over land, village greens, highways and statutory nuisance. Well-versed in definitive map order modification orders, George Laurence KC acted in one such case examining where a surveying authority may refuse to make an order despite a conflict of fact between a landowner and applicant. In Cotham School v Bristol City Council, Paul Wilmshurst acted for the council in this case which clarified the law on the application to deregister land as a village green.
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