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Environment & Planning - Australia
What the Team is Known For
Beatty Hughes & Associates is a Sydney boutique focused on environment, planning and valuation matters and advising a broad spectrum of government, developer, contractor and industry clients across a similarly comprehensive range of practice area issues. It offers particularly focused expertise concerning waste law questions and in the representation of clients seeking compensation in the wake of compulsory land acquisitions, and receives regular referrals from other law firms for matters in these and other highly specialised spheres.
Strengths
Beatty Hughes & Associates is a small, bespoke and really strong firm.
Notable practitioners
Andrew Beatty handles a wide range of environment and planning issues for a diverse clientele, being particularly well-known for his handling of contentious matters, notably including the representation of dispossessed landowners.
Andrew is one of the most experienced environment and planning lawyers in the market and is wonderful in terms of client engagement.
Adnrew Beatty is excellent.
Jennifer Hughes is particularly noted for her work on waste and contamination issues, and is also a prominent adviser on environmental incident and compliance matters.