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26.02.2010
New Silks 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Chambers is proud to announce that Bryan McGuire and Gerard Forlin have been notified of their appointment as Queen’s Counsel and will take up their roles on 22 March after the formal ceremony in Westminster Hall.
25.02.2010
Late challenge to a planning permission; discontinuance and compensation
Thursday, February 25, 2010
R (Usk Valley Conservation Group) v Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and Thomas [2010] EWHC (Admin) 71
A significant case involving two challenges: one to the grant of planning permission in 2005 for a caravan and camping site; the other to decisions taken by the defendant authority in 2008 concerning enforcement and discontinuance. Notwithstanding the lapse of some 3 ½ years between the grant of permission and the issue of proceedings, the court quashed the permission on a variety of grounds arising from differences between the application and the permission. The court departed from an earlier decision, Alnwick DC v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1999) 79 P&CR 130, in holding that an authority’s liability to pay compensation was material to its consideration of a discontinuance order.
On 18 February 2010 the court dealt with relief and costs, making important observation on the need for selectivity in public law challenges. The judgment on costs has not yet been published.
Morag Ellis QC and Robin Green appeared for the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority
Anthony Porten QC and Ian Albutt appeared for the interested parties
Click here for full text of the decision
01.02.2010
Cardiff office
Monday, February 01, 2010
Chambers is delighted to announce that we now have office space, and conference facilities, in Cardiff. This has been arranged to allow us to provide improved support arrangements for our many clients in Wales, the South West and the West Midlands. We look forward to seeing many of you in these offices.
The contact details are:
2-3 GIS
One Caspian Point
Pierhead Street
Cardiff Bay
CF10 4DQ
Phone: 02920 444022
Fax: 02920 444023.
clerks@cornerstonebarristers.com
DX: We will provide this when details finalised. If you wish to use this facility currently, please liaise with the clerks on clerks@cornerstonebarristers.com, phone as above or 020 7242 4986
Regards
Lynne Orsborn
Chambers Director
