This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.
Friday 31 May 2024
We are delighted to announce that the School Inclusion Project has been shortlisted for The Halsbury Award for Rule of Law, the case of Finch v Surrey County Council [2024] UKSC 20 has been shortlisted for Case of the Year and Ollie Persey has been shortlisted for Legal Personality of the Year at the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025.
Thursday 16 Jan 2025
We are delighted to announce that our Marc Willers KC has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at University College Cork.
Friday 27 Sep 2024
Garden Court Chambers is proud to be recognised as a Top Tier set again in the Legal 500 UK 2024 rankings.
Wednesday 4 Oct 2023
Marc Willers KC of the Garden Court Environmental Law and Climate Justice Team acted for the claimants Marine Conservation Society (MSC), Richard Haward's Oysters, and Hugo Tagholm, alongside Peter Lockley of 11KBW.
Friday 15 Sep 2023
MCS, Richard Haward Oysters v SSEFRA
Judicial review challenge to the government’s Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan on grounds that it fails to accord with statutory obligations, human rights and the public trust doctrine. Press Coverage: The Guardian, BBC News, Financial Times, iNews.
Kenyon v Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government (2020) EWCA Civ 302
Represented a local resident who unsuccessfully challenged a decision by the Secretary of State that no environmental impact assessment was required for the proposal that 150 homes be built on a site in Hemsworth, in circumstances where the development would lead to an increase in traffic and nitrogen dioxide levels in the town centre, which had been designated as an Air Quality Management Area.