Next week, the High Court is due to determine whether Dorset Council has power to enforce planning authority over the Bibby Stockholm. Alex Goodman KC and Alex Shattock of Landmark Chambers and Penelope Nevill and Fiona Peterson Twenty Essex instructed by DPG dpglaw.co.uk/on-27-29-febru…

We were so inspired by last night's packed public meeting to celebrate the Aylesbury estate JR win and talk about what's coming next ✊

Planning Court hands down judgment in important case for drop-in planning permissions

Jenny Wigley KC KC and alex shattock appeared for the claimant.

Melissa Murphy KC and Heather Sargent appeared for the defendant.

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Huge thanks to Matt Dathan at The Times and The Sunday Times for exposing this horror

Home Office hires hangar to practise forcing migrants on Rwanda flights
- Staff to be trained at a secret location

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Have you been watching the Great Climate Fight on Channel 4 Channel 4 Earth? This is exactly what our #SaltCrossGardenVillage case against the Government is all about! Our case is for a community who wants a development built to highest #NetZero standards but has been blocked.

DPG‘s Emily Soothill and Helen Barron instructing Alex Goodman KC and Alex Shattock of Landmark Chambers, and Penelope Nevill and Fiona Petersen of Twenty Essex Chambers. Emily Soothill Helen Baron 🧡 alex shattock Alex Goodman KC Twenty Essex

DPG has been instructed along with barristers from Landmark Chambers and Twenty Essex to challenge the Government's failure to obtain necessary planning permission for the Bibby Stockholm barge
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Delighted to have been granted permission on the papers in this one with fantastic PILC colleagues Alex Goldenberg and Saskia O'Hara- next stop final hearing!

a really interesting article on using planning as a tool to make disenfranchised voices heard. it also refers to a case I am assisting with regarding the Aylesbury Estate

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An interesting time to be working on oil & gas in the UK (that's an understatement) and the best colleagues you could hope for. Please do share!
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A 3-day 'rolled-up' hearing has been ordered to consider the legal challenges to the Cumbria Coal Mine by KendalTransition and Friends of the Earth; good news that grounds of claim will be heard in full by the High Court (likely in late summer/early autumn)

Pleased that we are going to a final hearing on this after the Court's decision last week. I act for Friends of the Earth with a fantastic legal team,
Paul Brown Toby Fisher Rowan Smith
Julia Eriksen, Niall Toru, Katie de Kauwe and Vivian Aiyedogbon

Pleased to be instructed for the claimant with Alex Goldenberg and Saskia O'Hara at Public Interest Law Centre in this interesting challenge

As Liberty warned, these powers are so breathtakingly broad that they allow the police to arrest and detain protestors who happen to be carrying objects like bike locks or luggage ties. Taking no further action after the event does not undo the breach of the right to protest