News & Views
International Environmental Law, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, International Human Rights | Friday 26 February 2021
Coordinated effort by 33 countries to overturn ‘urgent’ status of youth climate change case rejected by Strasbourg Court
Our Marc Willers QC, Irena Sabic, Richard Reynolds, Paul Clark and Ella Gunn of Garden Court Chambers represent the youth-applicants
![Ella Gunn](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2852.jpg)
![Marc Willers KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/448.jpg)
![Paul Clark](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1162.jpg)
![Richard Reynolds](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1189.jpg)
![Irena Sabic KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1637.jpg)
International Environmental Law, International Human Rights, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Monday 30 November 2020
European Court of Human Rights is fast-tracking a climate case against 33 European States brought by 6 Portuguese youth
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) instructing Marc Willers QC, Irena Sabic, Richard Reynolds, Paul Clark and Ella Gunn of Garden Court Chambers.
![Marc Willers KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/448.jpg)
![Ella Gunn](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2852.jpg)
![Irena Sabic KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1637.jpg)
![Paul Clark](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1162.jpg)
![Richard Reynolds](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1189.jpg)
Environmental Law and Climate Justice | Monday 16 November 2020
Net Zero and downstream emissions in court this week
The Claimant is represented by Marc Willers QC, of the Garden Court Environmental Law Team, leading Estelle Dehon of Cornerstone Chambers, instructed by Leigh Day.
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Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Environmental Law and Climate Justice, International Environmental Law | Thursday 3 September 2020
Portuguese young people file ground-breaking climate case with European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries
Global Legal Action Network instructing Marc Willers QC, Irena Sabic, Richard Reynolds, Paul Clark and Ella Gunn of Garden Court Chambers.
![Irena Sabic KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1637.jpg)
![Ella Gunn](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2852.jpg)
![Paul Clark](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1162.jpg)
![Marc Willers KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/448.jpg)
![Richard Reynolds](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1189.jpg)
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
![Paul Powlesland](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2106.jpg)
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.
![Irena Sabic KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1637.jpg)
![Grace Brown](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/935.jpg)
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.
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![Tim Baldwin](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1279.jpg)