Environmental
The Environmental Law Team offer advice on compliance with regulation at all stages, and advice and advocacy services in all types of criminal and regulatory prosecutions.
- Our Areas of Expertise
- Criminal Regulatory
- Environmental
Deans Court Chambers are widely recognised for their specialist knowledge and expertise in the field of environmental law. We provide the highest quality of advocacy services and bring strength and in depth experience to cases we are instructed to meet our clients expectations.
We regularly represent clients before tribunals and the higher Courts in a broad range of environmental disputes which can often be highly complex. We are instructed to provide advocacy services in all areas of environmental law including:-
 - Air pollution;
 - Cases involving the Waste Directive;
 - Cases involving the WRAP Protocol;
 - Contaminated land;
 - Environmental crime;
 - Environmental impact assessment;
 - Re-cycling and re-using materials;
 - Renewable energy;
 - 59 applications;
 - Statutory nuisance claims;
 - Water pollution;
 - Waste disposal;
 - Waste Management Licence Regulations.
A diverse range of clients from the public, private and third sectors instruct members of our Environmental team. Whether they regulate, or are regulated, all of our clients receive expert advocacy and advisory services to ensure we add value and meet our clients specific needs. Chambers expertise ensures we can advise on civil claims enabling the team to provide advice on all legal issues arising out of incidents.
Chambers has several members of the Attorney General’s Regulatory List of Counsel used by the Environment Agency and other regulators.
Our Environmental team
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Michael Hayton KC
Call: 1993 Silk: 2013
Head of Chambers
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Tim Horlock KC
Call: 1981 Silk: 1997
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Fiona Horlick KC
Call: 1992 Silk: 2019
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Sophie Cartwright KC
Call: 1998 Silk: 2021
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Iain Simkin KC
Call: 1995 Silk: 2023
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Peter Smith
Call: 1988
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Fraser Livesey
Call: 1992
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Lisa Judge
Call: 1993
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Rosalind Scott Bell
Call: 1993
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Adam Lodge
Call: 1996
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Elizabeth Dudley-Jones
Call: 1997
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Tom Gent
Call: 1998
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Virginia Hayton
Call: 1999
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Joseph Hart
Call: 2000
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Rosalind Emsley-Smith
Call: 2001
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Michelle Brown
Call: 2005
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Harriet Tighe
Call: 2014
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Colette Renton
Call: 2015
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Megan Tollitt
Call: 2018