Killian Garvey
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 1 : Planning
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About
Provided by Killian Garvey
Practice Areas
Killian regularly appears in planning inquiries and across the higher courts (including the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) across England and Wales. He acts for both developers and local authorities on a roughly 70/30 split, respectively. He has a particular specialism in residential development.
Planning Resource Magazine’s annual survey ranked Killian as the best planning barrister under 35 in 2022 and 2023. In 2024 Killian was ranked as the 8th best barrister (including amongst Kings Counsel) for residential development in England and Wales.
Career
Education: University of Oxford: Bachelor of Civil Law (2014); University of Law: Bar Professional Training Course (2014) – Outstanding; College of Law (Chester): Graduate Diploma in Law (2011) – Distinction (1st in the year); University of Liverpool: Bachelor’s Degree in History (2010) – 1st class honours (1st in the year).
Call: 2014
Professional Memberships
Planning and Environmental Bar Association.
Publications
Published in Planning Resource magazine
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Killian Garvey is a respected planning junior with particular experience in residential planning issues. He appears on behalf of bothlocal planning authorities and developers. He frequently appears in the High Court on planning appeals involvingnovel points of law.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Killian is approachable and can distill complex matters well."
"He is truly exemplary as well as being a delight to work with."
"Killian Garvey is one of the stars of the junior planning bar. He is very quick to respond to issues and putting his own case forward."
"Killian is extremely hard-working, really approachable, really quick on his feet when dealing with cross-examination and advocacy work and a really good person to have as part of your team."
"Clients love his up-to-the-minute understanding of case law."
"Killian is approachable and can distill complex matters well."
"He is truly exemplary as well as being a delight to work with."
"Killian Garvey is one of the stars of the junior planning bar. He is very quick to respond to issues and putting his own case forward."
"Killian is extremely hard-working, really approachable, really quick on his feet when dealing with cross-examination and advocacy work and a really good person to have as part of your team."
"Clients love his up-to-the-minute understanding of case law."
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