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Environmental Law and Climate Justice, International Environmental Law, Garden Court International | Tuesday 3 November 2026

Sangeetha Iengar appears at Commonwealth People’s Forum in Antigua

Sangeetha Iengar of the Garden Court Environmental Law and Climate Justice Team will be speaking at the Commonwealth People's Forum, part of the CHOGM 2026, held in Antigua.

Sangeetha Iengar

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Administrative and Public Law, International Human Rights | Wednesday 28 October 2026

Sangeetha Iengar – Director of University of Oxford’s Institute for Law and Policy on Climate Mobility

Sangeetha is an award-winning public law practitioner with over 15 years of experience as a specialist in asylum, immigration and international human rights law.

Sangeetha Iengar

Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Tuesday 20 October 2026

Why the European Court of Justice is failing us all on climate – the case of the Taxonomy Regulation

Blog by Frances Lawson of the Garden Court Chambers Environmental Law & Climate Justice Team following our conference 'Global and Domestic Litigation, Environmental Destruction & the Climate Crisis'.

Frances Lawson

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Environmental Impact Assessments | Tuesday 13 October 2026

Abigail Holt Published in JPIL: “International Law and Heath: We All Need to be Climate Lawyers Now”

Abigail Holt of the Garden Court Environmental Law & Climate Justice Team has been published in the Journal of Personal Injury Law.

Abigail Holt

Environmental Impact Assessments, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Planning Law | Monday 28 September 2026

Acland Bryant published in UK Journal of Animal Law

Acland Bryant of Garden Court Chambers has authored two articles which have been published in the UK Journal of Animal Law.

Acland Bryant

Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Friday 18 September 2026

Planning environmental justice into section 1 of the Equality Act 2010

Acland Bryant, a climate justice and environmental law specialist, considers the importance of section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 in the context of planning permissions and environmental injustice.

Acland Bryant

Inquests and Inquiries, Planning Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Wednesday 12 August 2026

Garden Court Chambers shortlisted at Chambers Bar Awards 2026

We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2026.

Marc Willers KC

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Immigration Law, International Environmental Law | Monday 10 August 2026

Ronan Toal and Ubah Dirie to speak in Climate Mobility & Legal Innovation Programme

Garden Court's Ronan Toal and Ubah Dirie will be speaking in the CLIP programme.

Ronan ToalUbah Dirie

International Environmental Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Production | Friday 10 July 2026

Marc Willers KC leading in landmark EACOP case

Marc Willers KC has been instructed to represent four Ugandan farmers in an environmental case which has just been launched in the High Court of England and Wales against the UK registered company EACOP Ltd.

Marc Willers KC

International Environmental Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Garden Court International | Friday 26 June 2026

Climate Justice Blog: Fair share climate litigation post-Klima – the French frontier

In our fourth and final #ClimateActionWeek blog, Frances Lawson explores a new frontier in environmental claims: fair share climate litigation.

Frances Lawson

Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Friday 26 June 2026

Climate Justice Blog: Material contribution – An alternative to legislators getting cold feet in an overheating world?

In our third #ClimateActionWeek blog, Abigail Holt looks at how legal tests deployed in personal injury cases could be harnessed to hold to account those who damage the environment and drive climate change.

Abigail Holt

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Planning Law | Wednesday 24 June 2026

Climate Justice Blog: Climate Litigation after the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025

#ClimateActionWeek blog by Acland Bryant of the Garden Court Chambers Environmental Law & Climate Justice Team.

Acland Bryant

Environmental Protest, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Protest Rights | Monday 22 June 2026

Climate Justice Blog: Climate protest and conscientious motivation after R v Hallam

This the article in our #ClimateActionWeek blog series, pupil barrister Blánaid Ní Chearnaigh explores how courts are required to treat conscientious motivation at sentencing and traces the progressive narrowing of the legal defences available to climate protesters at trial.

Blánaid Ní Chearnaigh

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Administrative and Public Law | Tuesday 5 May 2026

Loch Neagh Pollution – Judicial Review challenge over failure to protect

Belfast eel fisherman Declan Conlon has brought a Judicial Review against the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) over its duties to protect Loch Neagh from nutrient pollution and to protect his livelihood.

Marc Willers KCAcland Bryant

Administrative and Public Law, Immigration Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Thursday 9 April 2026

Garden Court shortlisted for four awards at Bar Pro Bono Awards 2026

We are delighted to announce that four Garden Court barristers have been shortlisted at Advocate’s Bar Pro Bono Awards 2026.

Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Education Law | Thursday 26 March 2026

Garden Court nominated for five awards at Bar Pro Bono Awards 2026

We are delighted to announce that five Garden Court barristers have been nominated at Advocate’s Bar Pro Bono Awards 2026.

Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Friday 28 November 2025

Planning decision on intensive chicken farm quashed

Acland Bryant of the Garden Court Environmental Law & Climate Justice Team acted Coalition Against Factory Farming, instructed by Matthew McFeeley at Richard Buxton Solicitors.

Acland Bryant

Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Immigration Law | Friday 14 November 2025

Ronan Toal in human rights appeal won on grounds relating to climate change

Ronan Toal of the Garden Court Immigration Team acted for a Filipino national (FA) and was instructed by Gamal Basha of Qore Legal.

Ronan Toal

Planning Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Thursday 14 August 2025

Plans for giant intensive poultry unit in Norfolk overturned

Acland Bryant of Garden Court Chambers acted for Coalition Against Factory Farming (CAFF), with Alex Shattock of Landmark Chambers, instructed by Ricardo Gama and Lucia Saborio Perez at Leigh Day.

Acland Bryant

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Planning Law, Administrative and Public Law | Tuesday 24 June 2025

High Court quashes Northern Ireland government’s decision to proceed with biggest ever infrastructure project on climate grounds

Marc Willers KC and Acland Bryant of the Garden Court Environmental Law & Climate Justice Team acted for Alternative A5 Alliance, instructed by Ciaran O’Hare at McIvor Farrell Solicitors.

Marc Willers KCAcland Bryant

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