News & Views
Protest Rights, Commercial and Business Ethics, Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Tuesday 4 August 2020
Garden Court Chambers welcomes Paul Powlesland as a new tenant
Planning Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Wednesday 5 June 2019
Wales scraps £1.6 billion plan to build Gwent Levels M4 Relief road in south Wales
Grace Brown and Irena Sabic, both of Garden Court, represented Gwent Wildlife Trust, Woodland Trust and the Campaign for Protection of Rural Wales at the public inquiry.
Environmental Protest, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Thursday 17 January 2019
Oil and gas companies' use of injunctions "a threat to our civil liberties"
Parliamentarians, lawyers and campaigners joined forces on 16 January to warn about the growing threat to civil liberties from injunctions against campaigners who protest against fracking, oil and gas companies.
Planning Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Administrative and Public Law | Tuesday 6 November 2018
High Court rules that Mineral Planning Authorities are not bound by statutory definition of fracking and can apply their own wider definitions
Marc Willers QC represented Councillor Paul Andrews, Mayor of Malton, North Yorkshire. He led his colleague Tim Baldwin, and was instructed by Ricardo Gama of Town Legal LLP.
Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Tuesday 23 October 2018
Garden Court's Marc Willers QC and David Neale respond to questions posed by APPG on the Impact of Shale Gas
The evidence, delivered today, was drafted by Marc Willers QC and David Neale.
Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Administrative and Public Law, Garden Court International | Thursday 20 September 2018
CAN Europe is intervening in the People’s Climate Case
Marc Willers QC of the Garden Court Chambers Environmental and Planning Law Team is the leading barrister representing CAN Europe. Garden Court's Richard Reynolds, Paul Clark and Julia Lowis worked with Marc on the application to intervene.
Planning Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Administrative and Public Law | Tuesday 11 September 2018
Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal to hear new arguments in Barbudans’ legal action against “unlawful” development of international airport
Leslie Thomas QC, Marc Willers QC, Thalia Maragh and Tihomir Mak are instructed in this case.
Planning Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Administrative and Public Law | Thursday 23 August 2018
The Mayor of Malton takes legal action against planned government changes to how fracking applications are handled
Marc Willers QC has been instructed to represent Paul Andrews, the Mayor of Malton in North Yorkshire, in the legal challenge.
