FRANCIS TAYLOR BUILDING - Key Persons
Alexander is a keen cyclist and has toured across Slovenia, Italy, Germany, France and Switzerland. He also enjoys skiing and sailing.
Job Titles:
- Principal Clerk Business Development & Research
- Principal Clerk Business Development and Research - Administration and Fee Collection
Andrew is identified as a Leading Silk in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500, He is described as "A well-prepared barrister who fights for his clients. He has a very impressive brain" and is "a name to turn to for big planning inquiries."
Having occupied "a pre-eminent place at the junior bar", Andrew took silk in 2015 in a "richly deserved and popular appointment." Before taking silk, Andrew was recognised as a leading junior in the Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and Legal Experts.
As "an experienced counsel possessed of great style", he is described in the legal directories as "ambitious and hard-working [and] provides excellent, pragmatic advice" and is "a robust advocate" who has "great tactical awareness and the ability to highlight and concentrate on the main issues of a case".
Andrew is the consultant editor of Halsbury's Laws: "Mines, Minerals and Quarries", 5th and 6th editions and writes the Legal Comment column in Mineral Planning.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Environmental Law and Head of Sussex Law School
Professor Donald McGillivray is Professor of Environmental Law and Head of Sussex Law School. He has over 20 years' experience researching and teaching environmental law. He was previously Professor of Law at the Kent Law School.
Donald is a co-author of Bell, McGillivray, Pedersen, Lees and Stokes, Environmental Law (9th ed, OUP) and has a broad interest in all aspects of environmental law. His current research interests include biodiversity and nature conservation law and - reflecting his research and teaching interests in land law - the law relating to the protection and sharing of open spaces including town and village greens. In addition to his academic work, Donald is an active member of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA) with a particular interest in building UKELA's support for students through competitions and achievement awards.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Environmental Justice Network Ireland
- Lecturer in Law
- Lecturer in Law / Lecturer in Law
Dr Ciara Brennan is Director of the Environmental Justice Network Ireland (ENJI). From 2012 to 2022 she lectured at Newcastle University where she taught environmental law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Ciara's research focuses on environmental justice, environmental rights, environmental governance and specifically the enforcement of environmental law in Northern Ireland.
Ciara's publications include:
Ciara Brennan, Mary Dobbs, Viviane Gravey ‘Out of the frying pan, into the fire? Environmental governance vulnerabilities in post-Brexit Northern Ireland' (2019) Environmental Law Review 21(2), 84-110.
Ciara Brennan, Ray Purdy and Peter Hjerp, ‘Political, Economic and Environmental Crisis in Northern Ireland: The True Cost of Environmental Governance Failures and Opportunities for Reform' (2017) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 68(2) 123-157.
Ciara Brennan ‘The Enforcement of Waste Regulation in Northern Ireland: Deterrence, Dumping and the Dynamics of Devolution' (2016) Journal of Environmental Law (28)3, 471-496.
Sharon Turner and Ciara Brennan ‘Modernising environmental regulation in Northern Ireland: a case study in devolved decision-making' (2012) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 63 (4) 509-32.
In June 2019, Ciara founded and launched the Environmental Justice Network Ireland (EJNI) with project partners from the NGO, activist and academic community. The goal of EJNI is to create a community of practice connecting interdisciplinary academic researchers, NGOs, regulatory staff, environmental lawyers, representatives from industry and government with community activists and the 'barefoot lawyers and planners' who have emerged over the last decade on the island of Ireland in response to serious environmental governance failures. The focus of EJNI activities is to support communities and individuals that are engaged in both promoting environmental justice and challenging environmental injustice. Ciara is embarking on a Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Sabbatical hosted by Friends of the Earth NI in September 2020.
Ciara attended Queens University Belfast, and holds an LLB, an MSc (with distinction) in Leadership for Sustainable Development and a PhD.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia
- Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia / Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia
Dr Eloise Ellis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia where she has taught Public law and European Law since 2011, having previously lectured at King's College London and Queen Mary, University of London. Eloise is currently the Law School's Director of Learning and Teaching.
She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg, the Institute of Law, Jersey, the Université Catholique de Lille and the University of London (International Programmes). She is also the co-convenor of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Public Law section.
After graduating from King's College London in 2000 with LLB (Hons) (First Class), and before commencing her academic career, Eloise worked as a political adviser and policy manager for organisations ranging from the Country Landowners' Association to the London Chamber of Commerce and the British Retail Consortium. She then spent a couple of years at a Government Department, where her roles included working for a Minister. This practical experience has informed her research and teaching in the field of Public Law.
Eloise's research interests include constitutional reform and the constitutional structure of Government with a particular focus on Parliamentary Select Committees. Her doctorate (awarded without corrections by King's College, London) examined the role and impact of Select Committees in relation to political and constitutional reform. Eloise also holds a Masters' degree in Higher Education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Job Titles:
- Head of Law at Cardiff University
- Law and Head
- Member of the CIArb Faculty
- Reader in Law and Head of Law, Cardiff University / Reader in Law and Head of Law, Cardiff University
Dr Richard Caddell is Head of Law at Cardiff University. A Reader in Law at Cardiff School of Law and Politics, and a member of the Wales Governance Centre, Richard was previously a Senior Research Associate and Nippon Foundation Senior Nereus Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University and has also held academic positions at the Universities of Swansea and Bangor. He was educated at Cardiff University, completing a PhD on the conservation of marine mammals in 2009.
Richard's primary research interests lie in the law of the sea and environmental law, with a particular emphasis on wildlife conservation law, fisheries management, marine mammals, Polar law and marine environmental law at the international, EU, UK and devolved levels, as well as the exercise of free speech and protest rights. He is a Principal Investigator within the Nippon Foundation's Ocean Nexus Center, leading a project on ‘Brexit, Devolution and the Sea: Recasting Marine Governance in UK Waters', which examines marine regulation by the devolved administrations and the ongoing impacts of Brexit on the marine environment of the UK. Richard is also a technical advisor with Conservation Without Borders, the leading conservation organisation promoting the protection of migratory wildlife.
Richard is currently writing Migratory Species and International Law: Challenges of Transboundary Conservation, the first major work on the legal issues raised by migratory wildlife, which will be published in 2022 by Edward Elgar. He is the co-editor of Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law (Edward Elgar, 2022, with Phillipa McCormack), Wetlands and International Environmental Law: The Evolution and Impact of the Ramsar Convention (Edward Elgar, 2022, with Royal C. Gardner and Erin Okuno), Strengthening International Fisheries Law in an Era of Changing Oceans (Hart, 2019, with Erik J. Molenaar), Shipping, Law and the Marine Environment in the Twenty-First Century (Lawtext, 2013, with D. Rhidian Thomas) and four editions of Blackstone's Statutes on Media Law (Oxford University Press, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, with Howard Johnson). Richard is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy and also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law and Communications Law. He regularly acts as a legal advisor to national governments, inter-governmental bodies and NGOs on environmental and marine issues.
Richard has been a member of the CIArb Faculty and taught on a number of the CIArb's domestic and international arbitration courses. He has acted as a party representative in numerous successful mediations, including disputes on compensation for compulsory purchase.
Job Titles:
- Expert in Environmental Impact Assessment
- Reader in Environmental Sciences, Imperial College, London
- Reader in Environmental Sciences, Imperial College, London / Reader in Environmental Sciences, Imperial College, London
Dr William R. Sheate is a Reader in Environmental Assessment at Imperial College London. Bill is a leading expert in Environmental Impact Assessment and has a distinguished record with the European Commission.
Originally an ecologist, Bill has worked, lectured and published widely on environmental assessment and policy for some 27 years. He has worked as a practicing ecologist, in consultancy, academia and in the voluntary sector. Most of his professional career has been spent working in interdisciplinarity. He splits his time evenly between academia (Imperial College London, where he is Reader in Environmental Assessment) and consultancy (Collingwood Environmental Planning, where he is Technical Director). His experience lies in the development and application of environmental policy and legislation (especially EIA/SEA/SA in the European Union), assessment procedures, methodologies, and public and NGO participation. He holds a PhD (on the basis of published work) on Accountability in Environmental Assessment Law, Policy and Practice in the EU. He has been an expert advisor to the EU, the European Environment Agency, the UK, Irish, Uruguay and Nicaraguan governments, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the National Trust; was a board member of Transport 2000 and a long-standing member of the Environment Agency (and formerly National Rivers Authority) Thames Regional Committees; and has been involved in various committees of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA).
He has managed major studies for the European Commission DG Environment on SEA and Integration of the Environment into Strategic Decision-Making (2000/01); on the relationship between the EIA and SEA Directives (2004/5); and led an international team in the development and application of sustainability assessment of biodiversity management scenarios for declining agricultural areas in upland Europe (EU 5FP, 2002-5). Recent activities include: EA practice and research in England, Scotland ,Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; research for the European Environment Agency on scenarios, futures studies, megatrends and planetary boundaries; research for Defra on ecosystem services in the Thames Gateway, and evaluations of biodiversity offsetting and Nature Improvement Areas; and sustainability assessments for the Greater London Authority on the GLA's Water Strategy and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. He was a co-author on the Urban chapter of the UK's National Ecosystem Assessment and of Chapter 9 of the NEA follow-on project on environmental appraisals.
Bill has published extensively in the assessment field, and is the author of Making an Impact: A Guide to EIA Law and Policy (1994, 2nd edition1996) published by Cameron May, London. He was the Founding Editor of the international Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Managemen t (ICP/WSPC) (from 1998-2009), now firmly established as one of the leading journals in the environmental assessment field. He is the editor of Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Sustainability - published by World Scientific (October 2009). Bill continues as a member of the JEAPM editorial board and is also Chair of the Environment Sub-committee, and member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Imperial College Press/World Scientific (UK). He is also an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester. He was appointed in 2014 Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into HS2 and the Environment. He is recognised as an international expert in advising on environmental assessment and compliance matters, e.g. for judicial review, and in April 2015 he testified on behalf of the Government of Nicaragua at the International Court of Justice in Nicaragua v Costa Rica (Border Road).
Guy Roots is a leading expert on the assessment of compensation for compulsory purchase and was the principal author and General Editor of a highly regarded text book on this subject (‘Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Service': Bloomsbury Professional). He has advised and appeared in numerous cases relating to compensation in the Lands Tribunal, Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal and in arbitrations. Examples of well known cases include:
Job Titles:
- Deputy Senior Clerk, Team Leader
Job Titles:
- Deputy Senior Clerk, Team Leader
Kia joined Francis Taylor Building in March 2023 as a Team Assistant after having experience as a Junior Clerk at Cornerstone Barristers. Kia assists all members of Chambers but primarily works with Harry and Grant assisting their team of barristers with all aspects of diary management, fee negotiation and work allocation.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director of the UCL Centre for Law
- Professor of Law at UCL
Maria Lee has been a professor of law at UCL since 2007, where she teaches and researches environmental law. She is particularly interested in the ways we make decisions on environmental matters, including in areas of high technological complexity and controversy. She has a long-standing interest in the ways in which law institutionalises public participation or the use of particular sorts of expertise. Maria also teaches tort law, and is interested in the borderlines between tort and public or collective interests.
Maria's recent work includes a monograph on the ways in which environmental groups used legal expertise during the Brexit process, and an edited collection on planning law scholarship (both with Professor Carolyn Abbot). These books are open access and can be downloaded from the UCL Press website.
Maria is co-director of the UCL Centre for Law and the Environment and an associate of the Brexit and Environment Network. She has been a member of a number of bodies, including the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the Greener UK Brexit Scenarios Group, and specialist advisor to Commons and Lords Select Committees.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham
- Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
Nicholas Hatzis is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham. Previously he was a Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and Référendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Maduro at the European Court of Justice. His interests are in public law, torts, EU law, civil procedure and media law.
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Clerking Team Assistant
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- Catering
- Catering / Catering
Sarah provides catering for conferences and events held in chambers.