Cornerstone Barristers is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan Kohli and Sarah Salmon as the new Heads of Public Law
Cornerstone Barristers is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan Kohli and Sarah Salmon as the new Heads of Public Law, taking over from Estelle Dehon KC and Andy Lane.
Cornerstone’s Public Law team has gone from strength to strength in recent years, which has been reflected in our Legal 500 ranking in Administrative and Human Rights, and our ability to host a packed annual public law conference, with keynote speakers in recent years including Lady Arden, former justice of the UK Supreme Court, and Professor Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Oxford.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Estelle Dehon KC and Andy Lane for their guidance of the team, which has contributed greatly to these achievements.
Our members regularly appear in high-profile Public Law cases of strategic importance before all courts, spanning judicial review, governmental and other inquiries, tribunal proceedings, disciplinary proceedings involving public bodies and statutory appeal work.
Highlights include:
- Philip Coppel KC and Natasha Peter secure interim injunction for Epping Forest Council overuse of Bell Hotel for asylum seeker accommodation
- R (Finch & Weald Action Group) v Surrey County Council & Horse Hill Developments Ltd [2024] UKSC 20, on appeal from [2022] EWCA Civ 187: the first climate-based challenge to a grant of permission for commercial oil production which establishes the correct approach to “remote” planning impacts, such as the greenhouse gas emissions from burning the oil extracted by the grant of planning permission.
Ryan Kohli is a leading practitioner with particular expertise in public, planning and environmental and property law.
He is consistently ranked in the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 directories of highly rated barristers and has been appointed by the Attorney General as Junior Counsel to the Crown (‘A’ Panel). He previously served on both the ‘B’ and ‘C’ panels. He is a Recorder (part-time Circuit Judge) assigned to the civil jurisdiction. In 2023, he was elected as a Governing Bencher of the Inner Temple.
Sarah Salmon specialises in public law, housing, and property law. She is ranked as a leading junior in Legal 500 for Administrative Law and Human Rights and is on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel of counsel (‘B’ panel). Sarah is the author of ‘A Practical Guide to Housing Allocation Schemes in England’ (Law Brief Publishing), co-author of ‘Judicial Review Proceedings: A Practitioners Guide’, 3rd edition (LAG, 2012) and was also a contributor to Matt Lewin’s ‘Cornerstone on Councillors’ Conduct and Standards in Public Life’ (Bloomsbury Professional). Her public law work has included cases concerning s.222 Local Government Act 1972, gang injunctions, PSPOs, rent increases, fraud investigations, data protection, discrimination claims and Gypsy and Traveller law.
