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Lisa was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2000 and took silk in 2016. She specialises in planning and environmental law, local government and public law (including equality and human rights) and immigration law. As a junior, she was included in the “top 100” list of junior counsel in the UK published by Chambers and Partners, which states:
“Lisa Busch’s wide-ranging practice takes in everything from environmental and planning cases to local government matters … An expert in human rights … Busch is known for her facility with complex matters and is ‘a top choice if you have a difficult case on your hands’”.
Before taking silk, Lisa was on the Attorney-General’s A Panel of Counsel, having previously been appointed to the B and C Panels. She is also on the B Panel of Counsel established by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal, as well as in various divisions of the Lower and Upper Tribunal and in public inquiries.
For further details of the different areas of Lisa’s practice, please click on the links below.
Tutor in Philosophy, Balliol College, 1997-1998
Research Assistant, Law Commission for England and Wales, 1998-1999
Visiting Fellow in Human Rights Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2001-2004
Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Law, King’s College, London 2007-2008
Appointed to the Parliamentary Bar with effect from 2013
Lisa was consistently rated as a recommended junior in her areas of practice in both Chambers UK and Legal 500. As a New Silk, she is recommended in five areas, namely planning, environmental law, administrative and public law, local government and immigration. The latest editions say:
Chambers UK, Planning, Environment: A new silk with an extensive history of high-end government work. Lisa has sat on the Attorney-General’s panel for over a decade and has attracted the praise of peers and clients for her involvement in some of the most high-profile recent planning debates, including HS2. She is noted as a go-to barrister for High Court matters. “Lisa is very conscientious, very hard working, very thorough and very passionate”. “She has very detailed knowledge of the law relating to environmental and planning cases”.
Chambers UK, Administrative and Public law: “A skilled advocate who is lovely to listen to”. “Calm, clear, measured, reliable and first-rate judgment”. “She is a good advocate for difficult, sensitive cases because she is so thoughtful and can present cases in a tactful and humane way”.
Chambers UK, Local Government: Regularly instructed in public law and local government matters, including major challenges in the High Court and Court of Appeal. She is well-versed in civil liberties issues and is a member of the Attorney-General’s A Panel of Counsel.
Lisa is listed as a Tier 1 new silk in the 2017 edition of Legal 500 in Administrative and Public Law (including Local Government); Environment; Immigration (including Business Immigration); and Planning, and is described as ‘extremely effective in cross-examination’ and ‘a rising young silk’.
She was also listed in the 2016 edition as follows:
Planning: "An expert on the planning aspects of large infrastructure projects" (2016)
Environment: "Experienced in high-profile government cases" (2016)
Administrative and public law: "Great strengths in oral and written advocacy" (2016)
Immigration: "A new silk with pedigree including heavyweight Article 8 and Article 3 cases" (2016)
As a junior, Lisa was recommended in Chambers UK as follows:
Planning: “direct and encouraging when working on difficult material”, “very friendly and co-operative, and able to secure satisfactory outcomes for her client while remaining fair” (2015); “she is superb, and manages to spin difficult cases into something better” (2014); “a broad public law practice that includes a substantial amount of planning and environmental law work” (2013).
Environment: “acts for local authorities, individuals and central government” (2015); “very comprehensive and through in her knowledge of the law, and expresses herself eloquently in court” (2014); “frequently appears before the High Court and Court of Appeal on a wide range of environmental matters” (2013); “an excellent courtroom manner” (2012).
Administrative and public law: “she is very impressive” (2015); “she is great. She is very experienced and has good judgement”, “a mature and sensible individual with good instincts” (2014); “has always impressed me with her analysis and approach” (2013); “a highly valued public law advocate” (2012).
Local government: “a strong junior who is frequently instructed in some of the most high profile local government matters. Her workload includes high stakes planning and infrastructure matters” (2015); “an impressive junior” (2014); “impresses clients with her analysis and is described as ‘excellent’” (2013); “the most practical of barristers as she is quick to respond to clients’ needs, sensitive to political and tactical considerations, and very good on pure legal points”, “highly effective”, “quick-minded in her responses and able to sensibly stick to the big points” (2012).
She received similar recommendations in Legal 500. She was also ranked as a leading junior in Planning Magazine on a regular basis.
Lisa has been listed as a leading junior, and recently a recommended new silk, in planning and environmental law in Chambers UK and Legal 500 for many years. She is experienced in dealing with a wide range of planning and environmental matters in statutory and non-statutory judicial review claims and in public inquiries. She has acted for the Department for Communities and Local Government, DEFRA, the Environment Agency, the Department for Transport and local authorities, as well as individuals and residents’ organisations, in cases under the Planning Acts and those involving EIA development, as well as challenges brought under other EU legislation, including the SEA Directive, Air Quality Directive, and Habitats and Birds Directives.
Lisa’s planning and environment practice has encompassed work on a significant number of major infrastructure projects, both by way of advice and advocacy. Over the course of 2013-2016 she was part of the team of Counsel acting for the DfT and HS2 in the HS2 House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry. In addition:
Lisa acted for the Tauheedul Education Trust promoting the Olive School, Hackney’s appeal against the refusal of planning and listed building consent by Hackney Borough Council for a new Free School at the site of the former Police Station at Lower Clapton Road, Hackney on transport, design, built heritage and conservation grounds in a six day Inquiry over 11 – 19 July 2017. The proposal was highly controversial, being supported by parents of children at the school but opposed by the Acton for Clapton residents’ group. The appeal raisied issues relating to the Government’s Free Schools and education policy, as well as traditional planning and listed building matters. The Secretary of State’s decision on the appeal is awaited.
Lisa has many years of experience in dealing with airports. She appeared in R (Medway City Council) v Secretary of State for Transport [2003] JPL 583 and R (Essex County Council) v Secretary of State for Transport [2005] JPL 1635 (acting, respectively, for local residents and Essex County Council in successful challenges to the “Future of Air Transport” green and white papers). In 2006 she appeared at the Coventry Airport Inquiry (appeal against non-determination of planning application for a new passenger terminal at Coventry Airport); and in 2008 she represented a consortium of local authorities in the Stansted Airport Inquiry. More recently, in 2014, Lisa appeared for the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in RSPB v SSCLG [2014] Env LR 30 (challenge to a decision to grant planning permission for the extension of the runway at London Lydd Airport under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010).
Lisa has extensive experience in dealing with road and rail schemes. In addition to HS2, in 2011-2012 she acted for the Highways Agency in the Inquiry concerning the A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement Scheme Supplementary Orders; and she subsequently acted for and advised the Agency in satellite Inquiries and with respect to compulsory purchase orders made in connection with the scheme. Lisa also advised the DfT on planning and environmental issues arising in connection with the National Networks National Policy Planning Statement, including those concerning air quality issues under the Air Quality Directive.
She has experience in terms of both advice and advocacy in cases involving windfarms and has acted on behalf of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in a range of challenges to such development, including Bayliss v SSCLG [2014] EWCA Civ 347, South Northants Council v SSCLG [2013] EWHC 11 and Hulme v SSCLG [2011] EWCA Civ 638, [2011] NPC 55.
Lisa has dealt in advice, inquiry and court proceedings with cases concerning waste disposal, energy from waste facilities, renewable energy facilities and the planning and environmental issues arising in connection with such forms of development.
Lisa has acted for local planning authorities, residents, developers and the Secretary of State in numerous planning judicial review claims and appeals under sections 288 and 289 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in both the High Court and Court of Appeal. She has also acted for developers, LPAs and residents’ groups in public inquiries concerning a wide range of development (including development in the green belt, and involving issues under the EIA Directive and other EU environmental legislation); as well as in enforcement appeals (including appeals by gypsies/travellers).
Lisa acted for the Neighbourhood Forum (with Paul Stinchcombe QC) in the leading decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the interpretation and application of the neighbourhood planning provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (R (Daws Hill Neighbourhood Forum) v Wycombe DC [2014] EWCA Civ 228, [2014] 1 WLR 1362).
In 2017 Lisa acted successfully for Farnham Town Council in a judicial review claim bought by a consortium of housing developers challenging the decision of the Borough Council approving the draft Farnham Neighbourhood Development Plan (R (Bewley Homes) v Waverley Borough Council and Farnham Town Council [2017] EWHC 1776 (Admin)). Lisa also obtained an unusual order for the Claimants to pay the costs of the Town Council, as well as those of the Borough Council
She acts regularly for the Environment Agency, dealing in particular with issues concerning flooding and flood defence work, including R (U & Partners) (East Anglia) v Broads Authority and the Environment Agency [2012] Env LR 5, Sharp v Chelmsford City Council [2014] EWHC 4180 (Admin) and Jefferson v The Natural Resources Body for Wales (2016). She also acts for navigation, water, port and harbour authorities, and bodies such as the British Waterways Board and Marine Maritime Organisation.
Lisa is experienced in dealing with cases involving town and village greens and rights of way, including rights of way over water. Where TVGs are concerned, she recently acted for the Secretary of State in R (Goodman) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and the Regions [2016] 2 All ER 701, [2016] 1 P&CR 8, an important case concerning the notion of “appropriation” under section 122 of the Local Government Act 1972. As regards riparian rights and rights of way over water, having appeared in the leading case of Rowland v Environment Agency [2005] 1 Ch 1 (for the Agency, led by Peter Village QC), Lisa has advised on questions concerning the existence of public rights of navigation over rivers in England and Wales, in the context of disputes between anglers and canoeists.
Lisa’s environmental law practice encompasses expertise in environmental taxes; and she acted for the Commissioners in Hanson Quarry Products v Revenue and Customs Commrs [2016] UKFTT 11 (TC) and Northumbrian Water Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commrs [2015] UKUT 93 (TCC).
For further details, please see Lisa’s “Cases” and “Inquiries” pages.
Lisa has been recommended as a leading junior, and latterly a recommended new silk, in administrative and public law in both Chambers UK and Legal 500 for many years. She was appointed to the Attorney-General’s A Panel of Counsel in 2012, having previously been on the B and C Panels. In her capacity as Panel Counsel she acted for a wide range of public bodies and Government Departments, including the Departments for Transport, Education, Justice, Work and Pensions, Communities and Local Government, DEFRA, the Environment Agency and the Home Office. She also advises the Equality and Human Rights Commission in her capacity as Panel Counsel to that body. Whilst as junior Panel Counsel the bulk of her practice was defendant-orientated, she has ample experience of acting for claimants as well, and welcomes instructions from both sides.
Jefferson v The Natural Resources Body for Wales: claim for damages against the NRW in respect of damage to the claimant’s property caused by flooding based on principles concerning the liability in negligence of public authorities (case settled pre-trial).
Hossain v SSHD [2016] EWHC 1331 (Admin): Lisa acted for the Secretary of State in a test-case challenge to the lawfulness of the Detained Asylum Casework Interim Instruction, providing for the detention under her immigration powers of certain classes of failed asylum seekers brought under the Equality Act 2010 and general public law grounds.
R (Goodman) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2016] 2 All ER 701: Lisa acted for the Secretary of State in a challenge to a decision of an Inspector refusing to register land as a town or village green under section 15(2) of the Commons Act 2006 on the basis of an erroneous reliance on a doctrine of implied appropriation. The case is authority for the proposition that section 122 of the Local Government Act 1972 requires a conscious deliberative process, and that an appropriation of land for the purposes of that provision could not be implied.
High Speed 2 (2013-16): Lisa was part of the team of Counsel acting for the Department for Transport and HS2 in the House of Commons Select Committee proceedings. In this capacity, as well as appearing in Committee on a day to day basis, she dealt with a range of public law issues, including overseeing the production of the equality and health impact assessments concerning the project.
GS (India) v SSHD [2015] 1 WLR 3312: Lisa acted for the Secretary of State (led by Lisa Giovannetti QC) in a seminal challenge to her decision to remove terminally-ill unlawful immigrants to their countries of origin brought under Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, in which the Court of Appeal confirmed the approach taken in such cases in D v UK and N v SSHD/N v UK, and made important observations concerning the relationship between Article 3 and 8 of the ECHR.
Attorney General v HMB Holdings Ltd [2014] UKPC 5: Lisa appeared in the Privy Council (led by Tim Corner QC) in a multimillion dollar claim involving a challenge to the decision of the Antiguan Court of Appeal on the award of compensation payable to the appellant in the wake of a compulsory purchase order made with respect to its luxury resort. The case raised constitutional issues under the Antiguan Constitution, including issues concerning the right to property (comparable to the rights protected by A1 P1 of the ECHR).
R (Bracking) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA 1345, [2014] Eq LR 60: a case concerning the closure of the Independent Living Fund and a leading authority on the scope and nature of the Public Sector Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010.
AZ v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2014] PTSR 835, [2013] JPL 713: a case in which the Court held that Article 8 considerations may be material to planning decisions and fall to be taken into account by decision-makers, in particular where the rights and best interests of a child are at stake.
R (Rahman) v Birmingham City Council [2011] Eq LR 705: Lisa acted for the local authority (led by Richard Clayton QC) in a challenge brought on PSED grounds to its decision to end funding for voluntary agencies providing legal advice to ethnic minorities and the disabled as a result of budgetary cuts.
Dacorum BC v (1) Purcell (2) Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & (3) the British Waterways Board [2009] EWHC 742 (QB): Lisa acted for the BWB in an inquiry dismissing the gypsy applicants’ appeal against refusal of their application for change of use of land in the vicinity of a reservoir to residential use; and again represented the BSB in the applicants’ appeal to the High Court against that decision.
R (VW (Uganda) v SSHD [2009] Imm AR 436: Lisa acted for the Secretary of State in this leading and oft-cited case concerning Article 8 of the ECHR.
Wolverhampton City Council v Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal [2007] ELR 418: Lisa acted for the LEA in an appeal to the Court of Appeal concerning the jurisdiction of the SENDIST.
Ali v Head and Governor of Lord Grey School [2006] UKHL 14, [2006] 3 AC 363: Lisa appeared in the House of Lords (led by Cherie Booth QC) in this leading case on Article 2 of Protocol 1 to the ECHR (right to education).
Lawrence v Cambridgeshire County Council [2006] ELR 343: Lisa acted for the Claimant in this challenge under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to a school’s refusal to admit a disabled child into the school premises in a pushchair by way of an exception to its policy forbidding pushchair access.
Rowland v Environment Agency [2005] Ch 1: lead case concerning public rights of navigation on the River Thames, Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the ECHR, and the doctrine of substantive legitimate expectation.
For further details of Lisa’s cases, please go to the “Cases” page.
Lisa has been recommended as a leading junior, and latterly a recommended new silk, in local government law in both Chambers UK and Legal 500 for many years. As a junior, she acted in both an advisory and advocacy capacity for local authorities in a wide variety of contexts, including planning (and related matters such as waste management), rights of way and town and village greens, and on public and administrative law matters. She continues to accept instructions in all areas of local authority law in silk. Notable cases to date include:
Jefferson v The Natural Resources Body for Wales: claim for damages against the NRW in respect of damage to the claimant’s property caused by flooding based in principles concerning the liability in negligence of public authorities (case settled pre-trial).
High Speed 2 (2013-16): Lisa was one of the team of Counsel acting for the Department for Transport and HS2 in the HS2 House of Commons Select Committee proceedings, dealing with a wide range of issues raised in local authority petitions, including those concerning planning and environmental matters, rating considerations, health and equality impacts, impacts on educational, health and other public facilities, consultation and compensation.
R (Daws Hill Neighbourhood Forum) v Wycombe DC [2014] EWCA Civ 228, [2014] 1 WLR 1362: Lisa acted for the Neighbourhood Forum (with Paul Stinchcombe QC) in the leading decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the interpretation and application of the neighbourhood planning provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
R (Bracking) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA 1345, [2014] Eq LR 60: concerned the closure of the Independent Living Fund and a leading authority on the scope and nature of the Public Sector Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010; the case involved consideration and analysis of local authorities’ powers and duties with respect to the disabled.
R (Save Woolley Valley Actions Group Ltd) v Bath & North East Somerset Council [2013] Env LR: Lisa acted for the Defendant planning authority in a challenge to its decision that transportable poultry units did not constitute “development” for the purposes of section 55 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and did not require environmental impact assessment.
R (Barnsley MBC) v SSCLG [2013] PTSR 23: concerning the question of whether a local authority had power under sections 121 of the Local Government Act 1972 and 2 of the Local Government Act 2000 to make a compulsory purchase order with respect to land in its area registered as a town or village green.
Birch v Barnsley MBC [2011] Env LR 15: Lisa acted for the defendant local authority in this challenge to its decision to grant planning permission for a composting unit in the absence of an EIA screening opinion.
Day v Brighton & Hove City Council [2007] Env LR D6: Lisa acted for the Defendant local authority in a challenge to a decision of the LPA to adopt a Waste Local Plan following a lengthy consultation period.
R (Essex CC) v Secretary of State for Transport [2006] 1 EGLR 91: Lisa acted for the claimant local authority in this challenge to the Government white paper on the future of air transport in the UK.
R (Medway Council) v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions [2003] JPL 583: Lisa acted for two of the claimants in this challenge to the green paper on the future of air transport in the UK.
For further details of cases, please see Lisa’s “Cases” page.
Lisa also has extensive experience of acting for local authorities in planning Inquiries. For details, click on the “Inquiries” page.
Lisa is a very experienced immigration practitioner. She was listed as a recommended junior in Administrative and Public law in the legal directories for many years, and is included as a recommended new silk in immigration in the latest edition of Legal 500. As a junior junior, she acted for claimants in asylum cases in the Tribunal on numerous occasions. As Panel Counsel, she represented the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the Administrative Court, Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal in cases involving a wide range of immigration matters, including asylum, EEA cases, trafficking, deportation, immigration detention, families and children and Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In silk, she welcomes instructions from claimants’ solicitors.
Hossain and Others [2016] EWHC 1331 (Admin): Lisa acted for the Secretary of State in a test-case challenge to the lawfulness of the Detained Asylum Casework Interim Instruction, providing for the detention under her immigration powers of certain classes of failed asylum seekers brought under the Equality Act 2010 and general public law grounds.
LW (Jamaica) [2016] 4 WLR 76: concerning the notion of “exceptional circumstances” in the context of the removal of a foreign criminal and the nature of the proportionality test in deportation cases.
Iran Country Guidance case [2016] UKUT 308: concerning whether an applicant is at risk on return from Iran by virtue of having left the country illegally and/or being a failed asylum seeker.
GS (India) and others [2015] 1 WLR 3312: Lisa acted for the Secretary of State (led by Lisa Giovannetti QC) in a seminal challenge to her decision to remove terminally-ill unlawful immigrants to their countries of origin brought under Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights, in which the Court of Appeal confirmed the approach taken in such cases in D v UK and N v SSHD/N v UK, and made important observations concerning the relationship between Article 3 and 8 of the ECHR.
AE (Algeria) [2014] EWCA Civ 653: concerning Articles 3 and 8 in the context of a proposed removal of a family with a terminally ill child.
SS (Malaysia) [2014] Imm AR 170: challenge to a decision refusing the appellant’s claim that removing her from the UK would breach her and her son’s rights under Article 8 in circumstances where she was a practising Catholic and the child’s father in Malaysia a convert to Islam.
LH (Nigeria) [2013] Imm AR 769: concerning the proposed deportation of a father and son and establishing that there had been no entitlement to the son to separate representation from that of his father.
AJ (Bangladesh) [2013] EWCA Civ 493: challenge to a decision of the UT dismissing the appellants’ appeal against deportation, notwithstanding its finding that removing him from the UK would not be in his son’s best interests.
Abdullah [2013] EWCA Civ 42: concerning the lawfulness of a failure on the part of the SSHD to grant the applicant leave to remain on the basis of Article 8 in circumstances in which the evidence as to whether he was of Palestinian or Saudi origin was unclear.
Richards [2013] EWCA Civ 244: concerning the impact on a child’s best interests of repeat drug offending by her father in in context of a deportation case.
Suppiah [2011] EWHC 2 (Admin): Lisa acted for the SSHD (led by Jonathan Swift QC) in the lead challenge to the lawfulness of the detention of women and children in Yarl’s Wood IRC.
VW (Uganda) [2009] Imm AR 436: Lisa acted for the Secretary of State in this leading and oft-cited case concerning Article 8 of the ECHR.
Tataw [2003] INLR 585: Lisa acted for the appellant asylum seeker in a challenge to the decision of the IAT to dismiss her appeal on procedural grounds concerning the question of whether she had met the time-limits for an appeal against the refusal of her asylum claim by the Tribunal in circumstances where her claim was based on the “unfamiliar practices” involved in FGM.
For further details please see Lisa’s “Cases” page.
Lisa acted successfully for Farnham Town Council in a judicial review claim bought by a consortium of housing developers challenging the decision of the Borough Council approving the draft Farnham Neighbourhood Development Plan (R (Bewley Homes) v Waverley Borough Council and Farnham Town Council [2017] EWHC 1776 (Admin)). Lisa also obtained an unusual order for the Claimants to pay the costs of the Town Council, as well as those of the Borough Council.
1999-2000 Inns of Court School of Law, London
1997-1998 Master of Studies, Balliol College, Oxford
1995-1997 BPhil, Balliol College, Oxford
1987-1993 BA (Hons 1)/LLB, University of Western Australia
Inner Temple Major Scholarship (1999)
Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship (1999)
Hackett Studentship for Overseas Postgraduate Study (1995-1998)
Phillips Fox Bursary in Law (1990-1993)
Julius Kovesi Memorial Prize for Philosophy (fourth year honours) (1992)
SA Grave Prize for Third Year Philosophy) (1989)
Hugh Owen Memorial Prize for Second Year History (1988)
BE Shillington Prize for First Year History (1987)
Member of ALBA and PEBA
R (Bewley Homes) v Waverley Borough Council and Farnham Town Council [2017] EWHC 1776 (Admin)
Hossain v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 1331 (Admin)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v KG (India) [2016] EWCA Civ 477
Secretary of State for the Home Department v LW (Jamaica) [2016] EWCA Civ 369; [2016] 4 W.L.R. 76
Hanson Quarry Products Europe Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2016] UKFTT 11 (TC)
R (on the application of Alnuaimi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
R (on the application of Kamki) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Ramathami v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2079 (QB)
Otobo v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2118 (Admin)
R (on the application of Kakar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 1479 (Admin)
Da Silva v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 1157 (Admin)
TN (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 525
Northumbrian Water Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2015] UKUT 93 (TCC); [2015] S.T.C. 1458; [2015] B.T.C. 511; [2015] S.T.I. 1259
GS (India) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 40; [2015] 1 W.L.R. 3312; [2015] Imm. A.R. 608; [2015] I.N.L.R. 446; (2015) 143 B.M.L.R. 79; Times, March 9, 2015
Keogh v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
MA (Eritrea) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 1608
R (on the application of Ali) v British High Commission Eco Islamabad Pakistan [2014] EWHC 2464 (Admin)
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2014] EWHC 1523 (Admin); [2014] Env. L.R. 30
AE (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 653
Uba v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 1166 (Admin)
R (on the application of Daws Hill Neighbourhood Forum) v Wycombe DC [2014] EWCA Civ 228; [2014] 1 W.L.R. 1362; [2014] P.T.S.R. 570; [2014] J.P.L. 866
Newlyn Dean & Sons Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2014] EWCA Civ 193
Attorney General v HMB Holdings Ltd [2014] UKPC 5
Forest of Dean DC v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 4052 (Admin)
JK (India) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1080
SS (Malaysia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 888; [2014] Imm. A.R. 170
Bayliss v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 1612 (Admin)
R. (on the application of Parekh) v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) [2013] EWCA Civ 679; [2013] C.P. Rep. 38
Kheirollahi-Ahmadroghani v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1314 (Admin)
R. (on the application of Bracking) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWHC 897 (Admin); [2013] Eq. L.R. 621; [2013] A.C.D. 100
R (on the application of Nagre) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 720 (Admin)
Wainhomes (South West) Holdings Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 597 (Admin); [2013] J.P.L. 1145
AJ (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 493
R (on the application of Daws Hill Neighbourhood Forum) v Wycombe DC [2013] EWHC 513 (Admin); [2013] P.T.S.R. 970; [2013] J.P.L. 1113; [2013] 12 E.G. 79 (C.S.)
New Forest DC v Owen [2013] EWHC 265 (QB)
Abdullah v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 42
LH (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 26; [2013] Imm. A.R. 769
Richards v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 244
South Northamptonshire Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 11 (Admin)
Pitblado v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2012] EWHC 3723 (Admin)
AZ v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2012] EWHC 3660 (Admin); [2014] P.T.S.R. 835; [2013] B.L.G.R. 444; [2013] J.P.L. 713
AM v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 1634
R (on the application of Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 3379 (Admin)
Ball v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2012] EWHC 4361 (Admin)
Reepan & Sons Ltd v Bromley LBC [2013] EWHC 4392 (Ch)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Hayat
S v Secretary of State for the Home Department
MM (Ghana), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
LE (Jamaica), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Ashley, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Ors
MB (Algeria), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Kotecha & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
U & Partners (East Anglia) Ltd, R (on the application of) v The Broads Authority
Hulme v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor
Rahman, R (on the application of) v Birmingham City Council
Rozo-Hermida, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Suburban Property Investment Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government & Anor
Suppiah & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
R (Birch) v Barnsley MBC [2010] EWCA Civ 1180
Mahfoud, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Beckley Parish Council v Secretary of State for Transport & Ors
Paterson v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs & Ors
AA (Saudi Arabia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Sathakaran, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
RT (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Saleh, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
F & Ors, R (on the application of) v Wirral Borough Council
Poku, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice & Anor
AW (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Smith, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government
Dacorum Borough Council (Applicant) v George Purcell & Ors (Respondents) & (1) British Waterways Board (2) Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government (Interested Parties)
WB (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
AZ (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Morton, R (on the application of) v Parole Board for England & Wales
VW (Uganda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
AM (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
R (on the application of Durmaz) v Secretary of State for The Home Department
AA v The Governor of HMP Downview & Anor
Persimmon Homes (North East) Ltd., Barratt Homes Ltd and Millhouse Developments Ltd v Blyth Valley Borough Council
R (on the application of Janet Nleya) v Secretary of State for The Home Department
Haidary, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Bor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
AS (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Queen on the Application of R v B PCT
Bridgewood Rochester Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
JR Cussons & Son v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor
ZT (Kosovo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Francis v First Secretary of State & Anor
Benson, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Justice
Persimmon Homes Ltd, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Ors
Hook, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Wolverhampton City Council v Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal and Another
Freedham v Zafir
Tapecrown Ltd v First Secretary of State & Anor
BPS Advertising Ltd v London Borough of Barnet
Day v Brighton & Hove City Council East Sussex County Council
Oakfern Properties Ltd v Ruddy
Sorrenti and another v First Secretary of State and another
Ali v First Secretary of State & Anor
Chichester DC v Secretary of State [2006] EWHC 1876 Admin, [2007] JPL 389
S288 challenge to a decision to grant planning permission for what was effectively a house in the open countryside.
Ali v Head and Governors of Lord Grey School
Rowe v First Secretary of State and Burnley Borough Council
Bayfordbury Estates Ltd v First Secretary of State and another
Lawrence v Cambridgeshire County Council
Davey v First Secretary of State and others
R (J) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
First Secretary of State v Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
R (Fairstate Ltd) v First Secretary of State
D & Anor v East Sussex County Council
Darlington Borough Council v Lingfield Properties Ltd & Lingfield Properties (Darlington) Ltd
Evans v Capio Healthcare (UK) Ltd
National Carparks Ltd v Baird (Valuation Officer)
R (Tataw) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
R (Gosbee) v First Secretary of State
R (Orchard) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Rowland v Environment Agency
R (Westminster City Council) v Mayor of London
Inquiry into appeal against refusal of planning and listed building consent for a new Free School in Hackney concludes
North-South Interconnector inquiry reopens in Armagh
Former Hackney Police Station, 2 Lower Clapton Road, London
Land off Station Road, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
Department for the Environment, Northern Ireland, 5 Seacash Road, Antrim, NI
High Speed 2 Parliamentary Select Committee
Aylesbury Vale Core Strategy
Whittington Way, Bishop’s Stortford, East Herts
A46 Newark to Widmerpool Supplementary Orders, Farndon Roundabout
Rooff Goods Depot, Carpenter’s Road, London
B3408 London Road Service Road
Community Windpower Ltd, land adjacent to South West Davidstow Wood, Davidstow, Cornwall
Sandford Farm, Woodley, Wokingham
A46 Newark to Widmerpool Supplementary Orders
Stansted Airport G1 Inquiry
Oxfordshire County Council Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way, Stadhampton FP11 and BOATS 23 & 24 Modification Order
East Sussex County Council, land at North Quay, Newhaven, CPO by non-ministerial acquiring authorities
Plots 1 & 2, Magpie Hall Farm, Upper Caldecote, Bedfordshire
Appeal against refusal of planning permission for change of use of land for three residential caravans and three touring caravans, Wilstone Reservoir and Nature Reserve, Tring, Herts
159 Monkhams Lane, Woodford Green, Redbridge
Land at Catt’s Farm, Newbury Road, Hedley, Hampshire, Call-In Inquiry
Site at Former Builders’ yard, adjacent to 11 Lyndhurst Road, Broadstairs, Kent
181 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent
Appeal by Bayfordbury Estates against non-determination of application for proposed residential development 89 flats and associated development, Broadmeads, Ware, Hertfordshire
Asylum-seekers’ accommodation centre, Cherwell, Oxfordshire
Land at Woodhill Farm, Brimstone Hill, Meopham, Kent
Ambersgill Homes Ltd, Land at London Road, Markyate, Herts
Brexit and Environmental Law - The future?