JUNIOR PROFILE

Killian Garvey

UK Bar 2026

Kings Chambers

Ranked in 1 practice area

Planning

Northern/North Eastern (Bar)

6 years ranked

About

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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

Provided by Chambers

UK Bar

Planning - Northern/North Eastern (Bar)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Killian Garvey is a respected planning junior with particular experience in residential planning issues. He appears on behalf of both local planning authorities and developers. He frequently appears in the High Court on planning appeals involving novel points of law.

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Strengths

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Killian Garvey is everything you could wish for in a barrister.
PlanningUK Bar
Killian Garvey is very intelligent and approachable, clearly a future KC in the making.
PlanningUK Bar
Killian Garvey is rightly very highly regarded; he is hard-working and bright.
PlanningUK Bar
Killian is quick on his feet and holds his own, in terms of advocacy skills he is fantastic.
PlanningUK Bar
Killian is very sharp and good on his feet. He is very client-friendly.
PlanningUK Bar