Landmark Chambers

Heads of Chambers: David Holland KC and Jenny Wigley KC

Chief Executive: Paul Newhall

Chief Clerks: Ben Connor and Mark Ball

Tenants: 105

THE CHAMBERS Landmark Chambers’ 102 barristers offer advice and advocacy across the spectrum of planning, property, public, commercial, environmental, and rating and valuation law. Chambers has significant experience of litigation in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, the European Court of Justice, the European General Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Aarhus Compliance Committee, the Northern Ireland courts and the courts of a number of other jurisdictions, including Hong Kong. Chambers also has barristers called in international jurisdictions including (DIFC) Dubai and AIFC (Kazakhstan).

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Planning: Landmark remains at the forefront of the UK planning world. Significant infrastructure projects such as airport expansion, iconic bridges and buildings, rail and road infrastructure, retail and leisure are dealt with on a daily basis. Barristers frequently advise on matters relating to climate change, nuclear power, new coal-fired power stations with carbon capture storage, wind farms and other renewable energy schemes, and on every type of housing and mixed-use development.

Property: Landmark offers particular expertise in commercial and residential landlord and tenant easements, restrictive covenants, adverse possession, proprietary estoppel, boundary disputes, injunctions in relation to squatters and protestors, land registration, mortgages, the Electronic Communications Code and leasehold enfranchisement.

Public: Barristers frequently appear in applications for judicial review and before a range of statutory tribunals and inquiries, as well as appeals, in the UK and beyond. Barristers cover the full range of public law cases including community care, economic sanctions, education, healthcare, human rights, immigration, local government, rating and valuation, public procurement and social security. With numerous barristers appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel, Landmark is often instructed on some of the UK’s most sensitive legal matters.

Environmental: As leaders in environmental law, barristers are instructed on issues relating to air quality, access to environmental justice, waste, contaminated land, pollution, climate change, emissions trading, environmental permitting and regulation, environmental assessment, energy, environmental information, utilities, habitats and species protection, nuisance and issues relating to access to the countryside, commons and village greens.

Rating and Valuation: Landmark’s members have unrivalled experience and expertise in the law of valuation, rating advice, and litigation. Barristers appear in the courts and tribunals at all levels, from the Valuation Tribunal to the UK Supreme Court to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. Landmark barristers have appeared in all three of the rating cases to have reached the Supreme Court in recent years; indeed, in two of those three cases Landmark appeared on both sides. It is common to encounter all parties in a rating dispute represented by Landmark’s barristers: the ATM test litigation currently before the Court of Appeal involves eight barristers representing four parties, and all of them are from Landmark. Landmark’s rating team acts for and advises ratepayers of all sizes (from sole traders to multinational corporations), numerous billing authorities, and the VOA.