FTB CHAMBERS - Key Persons
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- Principal Clerk Business Development & Research
- Principal Clerk Business Development and Research - Administration and Fee Collection
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- Professor of Environmental Law at Sussex Law School
Donald McGillivray is Professor of Environmental Law at Sussex Law School. He has 30 years' experience researching and teaching environmental law. He previously served as Head of the Law School at Sussex and, before that, was a Professor of Law at Kent Law School. Donald currently convenes the MA Law course at Sussex, a one year law conversion degree course.
Donald is a co-author of Bell, McGillivray, Pedersen, Lees and Stokes, Environmental Law (10th ed, OUP, 2024) and has a broad interest in all aspects of environmental law. He is the Consulting Editor on Volume 78 of Halsbury's Laws of England, 'Open Spaces and Countryside'. 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.
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- Director of the Environmental Justice Network Ireland
- Director, Environmental Justice Network Ireland ( ENJI )
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.
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- 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.
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- Associate Professor, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London
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- Head of Law at Cardiff University
- Law and Head
- 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.
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.
Luke joined Francis Taylor Building in July 2022 having started his clerking career in 2020 post his graduation. He previously worked at Fountain Court Chambers and New Square Chambers in a junior role before becoming a Team Assistant at FTB. Luke assists all members of chambers with a range of tasks such as of diary management, fee negotiation and work allocation.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Paris joined FTB in 2022 as a Junior Clerk and quickly became an essential part of the team. In 2023, Paris progressed to the role of Marketing & Clerking Team Assistant, further expanding her responsibilities. Paris is now a Team Assistant and is involved in assisting barristers and team members with diary management, fee negotiation, and work allocation.
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- Reception and Catering
- Receptionist and Catering
- Receptionist and Catering / Receptionist and Catering
Sarah provides catering for conferences and events held in chambers.