UKELA - Key Persons


Alison York - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Legal
  • Solicitor
Alison is a solicitor and Head of Legal in the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, practising in environmental law and regulation in the public sector in Scotland.

Ben Stansfield

Ben is an environmental lawyer with Gowling WLG with particular expertise in waste matters and corporate disclosure and reporting issues.

Brendan Martyn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
Brendan is an Associate Director at Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors, Belfast, specialising in planning and environmental law.

Christian Jowett

Christian is a barrister at 30 Park Place, Cardiff and at 36 Commercial, London focusing on waste law and its interaction with other areas of law.

Emma Lui

Job Titles:
  • Policy Advisor at the Office for Nuclear Regulation
Emma is a Policy Advisor at the Office for Nuclear Regulation. She is also an Advisory Board member to Public Interest Environmental Law (PIEL) UK.

Estelle Dehon KC

Estelle is a public law silk at Cornerstone Barristers. She practices in environment and planning law, with particular expertise in climate change. Peter Harvey Peter is Senior Editor at Practical Law Environment (Thomson Reuters) and formerly a solicitor in private practice.

Helen Mitcheson

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor at Freeths
Helen is a solicitor at Freeths in the environment team. She is Deputy Director of Cet Law (a not-for-profit furthering law and policy to protect marine mammals).

James Sanderson

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Honorary Treasurer
  • Member of the Executive Committee
James is a qualified chartered accountant with over twenty years' corporate finance experience. James works at Philips where his current role focuses on internal controls relating to financial reporting.

Jane Haviland

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor in the Planning and Environmental Team at Birketts
Jane is a solicitor in the Planning and Environmental Team at Birketts where she focuses on Environmental Regulation and Compliance.

Juliet Munn

Juliet is a planning and environmental lawyer at Town Legal LLP where she advises on all aspects of planning and environmental law.

Nina Pindham

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
  • Specialist Planning and Environmental Law
Nina is a specialist planning and environmental law Barrister at Cornerstone Barristers

Odette Chalaby

Odette is a barrister at No5 Chambers specialising in environmental and planning law.

Peter Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Editor at Practical Law Environment
Peter is Senior Editor at Practical Law Environment (Thomson Reuters) and formerly a solicitor in private practice.

Phil Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
Phil is a Partner and head of environmental law at leading Scottish law firm Brodies LLP.

Richard Turney

Richard is a barrister at Landmark Chambers specialising in environmental, planning and public law. Simon Tilling Simon is head of a dedicated environmental law team at Pennon Group, owner of South West Water, Bournemouth Water and Bristol Water.

Safiyah Islam

Job Titles:
  • Associate Solicitor at Town Legal LLP
Safiyah is an associate solicitor at Town Legal LLP where she advises on all aspects of planning law.

Simon Tilling

Job Titles:
  • Head of a Dedicated Environmental Law Team at Pennon Group

Simone Davidson

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
  • Solicitor and Head of PSL Environment
Simone is a solicitor and Head of PSL Environment and Head of the Built Environment Cluster at LexisNexis.

Warren Percival

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • Director at RSK Group
Warren is a Director at RSK Group and has over twenty years' experience in environmental consultancy.