Robert Williams | Cornerstone Barristers

Areas of Practice

cases

Hillgrove Paddocks Planning Inquiry (2012)

Representing the Local Planning Authority (South Downs National Park Authority) in a three-day planning inquiry. The the central issue was whether there was an essential need for a rural worker [...]

R (on the application of Garner) v Elmbridge Borough Council [2011] Env LR 10: Rob appeared, as junior to James Findlay QC, in a leading case on the granting of Protective Cost Orders in judicial review challenges to planning permissions.; See full text of case

Abubakar v Entry Clearance Officer [2012] EWCA Civ 377

The Court of Appeal clarified the proper approach for assessing whether an applicant for entry clearance would be ‘adequately maintained’ for the purposes of the immigration rules. Rob appeared (as [...]

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Leeds Group Plc v (1) Leeds City Council; (2) Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (3) Jones [2012] 1 WLR 1561

A judicial review in which the appellant (unsuccessfully) argued that to apply the definition of a Town and Village Green brought in by the CROW Act 2000 to use of [...]

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