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"I am passionate about using the law in creative ways, to inspire action by renewing our sense of wonder in life and the natural world."

I trained at CMS Cameron McKenna, a top 20 City law firm, and worked at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP for 7 years.  I was Senior Associate in its Governance and Infrastructure department and gained experience in advising on a range of environmental and planning and public law related matters, with a focus on public authorities and the authorisation of major infrastructure projects.  

 

I advised on tram and road schemes including associated environmental impact assessments, inquiries in relation to drought orders and village green applications, judicial reviews for housing developments and harbour dues, and petitions to Parliament in relation to what was then the Crossrail Bill.  I have contributed to legal journals, as well as being an editor of Butterworth’s “Planning Law Encyclopaedia” and one of the authors of Bircham Dyson Bell’s “Practical Guide to Major Infrastructure Projects”.

 

I stopped practising in January 2012, to begin an inquiry into creating work which engaged my passions for meaning and creativity, centred on my conviction that acknowledging the Earth’s inherent right to life is also the way to the greatest human good.   

 

I now work as an independent consultant on environmental and planning law, with a focus on advocating right relationship between all our communities (human, natural and organisational).

 

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