am716@cam.ac.uk
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Room: Mallory A3
Tel: 01223 339752
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Fellow and Dias College Assistant Professor in Law, Magdalene College; Affiliated Lecturer
BCL (Oxon), MA (Cantab), Barrister (Gray's Inn), FHEA
Interests
I practised for a number of years as a barrister at Landmark Chambers, specialising in planning and environmental law, and public law. During this time, I provided supervisions in Administrative Law for Cambridge undergraduates. In 2021, I became a full-time academic and am now the inaugural Dias College Assistant Professor in Law at Magdalene College. In the academic year 2025-26 I am lecturing Administrative Law and the Law of Contract, and on the LLM Legislation course. I supervise Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and the Law of Contract.
In my research, I have been focusing in particular recently on the role of courts in relation to administrative policies and guidance. I am also interested in issues relating to planning law, and what we can learn from taking a sectorally-sensitive approach to administrative law.
Research centres and interest groups
CV / Biography
Associate Member at Landmark Chambers
Co-Editor of Judicial Review.
An Assistant Editor of (i.e. contributor to) the Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice, responsible for sections on the National Planning Policy Framework and Neighbourhood Planning.
Selected publications
Books
The Law and Practice of Human Rights (ed) (Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2025)
Co-editor(s):
David Blundell KC and Miranda Butler
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781474333726
A Practical Guide to Permitted Changes of Use (ed) (Bath Publishing, 2022) 4th Edition
Co-editor(s):
Martin Goodall & David Evans
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
978-1-8384390-2-6
Interpreting the NPPF: The New National Planning Policy Framework, 2018)
Link:
ISBN 13:
9781916431522
Articles
'Aspirations, Enforcement & Remedies' (2025) 175 8133 NLJ 9
Citation:
(2025) 175 8133 NLJ 9
Published: Oct 2025
'Visibility of Processes and the Visibility of Justice' [2025] JR 117
Citation:
[2025] JR 117
DOI:
10.1080/10854681.2025.2475682
Published: Apr 2025
'Committees Giving Reasons: Attribution and Sufficiency' [2025] Public Law 124
Citation:
[2025] Public Law 124
Published: Dec 2024
'Judgement and Judgments: The Role of Courts in Proportionality Challenges in the United Kingdom' [2024] European Human Rights Law Review 374
Citation:
[2024] European Human Rights Law Review 374
Published: Sep 2024
'Judicial Review Challenges to Secondary Legislation in England and Wales: Courting Controversy' (2024) 45(1) Statute Law Review
Citation:
(2024) 45(1) Statute Law Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmae010
Published: Feb 2024
'The interpretation of policies in administrative law: the significance of audience' [2024] Legal Studies 295
Citation:
[2024] Legal Studies 295
DOI:
10.1017/lst.2023.32
Published: Sep 2023
'Meeting Lofty Aspirations? English National Planning Policy, International Law, and Climate Change' (2023) 13(3-4) Climate Law 163
Citation:
(2023) 13(3-4) Climate Law 163
DOI:
10.1163/18786561-bja10040
Published: Aug 2023
'The Scottish Parliament, the Supreme Court, and an Independence Referendum? ' (2023) 28(1) JR 43
Citation:
(2023) 28(1) JR 43
DOI:
10.1080/10854681.2022.2167419
Published: Feb 2023
'The Interpretation of Planning Policy: The Role of the Court' [2022] JEL 419
Citation:
[2022] JEL 419
Published: Sep 2022
'Themes in Recent Cases on Permitted Development Rights in Planning' (2019) 24(4) JR 296
Citation:
(2019) 24(4) JR 296
Published: Dec 2019
'The Environmental Civil Sanctions Regime' (2019) 24(1) JR 1
Citation:
(2019) 24(1) JR 1
Published: Mar 2019
'Editorial: Brexit: What does the Outcome Mean for UK Public Law?' [2016] JR 141
Citation:
[2016] JR 141
Published: Sep 2016
'Protective Costs Orders and Costs Capping Orders: The New Law' [2016] JR 154
Citation:
[2016] JR 154
Published: Sep 2016
'An Update on Consultation' (2015) 20(3) JR 160
Citation:
(2015) 20(3) JR 160
Published: Sep 2015
'Costs, Permission and Interested Parties' (2014) 19(3) JR 173-179
Citation:
(2014) 19(3) JR 173-179
Published: Sep 2014
'The 'Makes No Difference' Controversy' (2013) JR 18(1) 124-133
Citation:
(2013) JR 18(1) 124-133
Published: Mar 2013
'The uncertain future of Walford v Miles' [2011] LMCLQ 528
Citation:
[2011] LMCLQ 528
Published: Nov 2011
Book Chapters
"The Aftermath of Successful Planning Claims" in Dan Jasinski and Noel McGuirk (ed(s)), Citizens, the State and Justice (Routledge), forthcoming
Publisher:
Published Forthcoming
"History and International Context of Human Rights Protection" (with Admas Habteslasie) in David Blundell KC, Miranda Butler and Alistair Mills (ed(s)), The Law and Practice of Human Rights (Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2025)
"Domestic Human Rights Practice" (with Richard Moules KC and Jacqueline Lean) in David Blundell KC, Miranda Butler and Alistair Mills (ed(s)), The Law and Practice of Human Rights (Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2025)
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781474333726
Published Sep 2025
"Remedies and Damages" (with Galina Ward KC and Georgie Fenton) in David Blundell KC, Miranda Butler and Alistair Mills (ed(s)), The Law and Practice of Human Rights (Lexis-Nexis/Butterworths, 2025)
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781474333726
Published Sep 2025
"Public Health" in David Lock QC and Hannah Gibbs (ed(s)), NHS Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 161-195
"Rights of Light and Planning Law" (with Stephen Bickford-Smith, Andrew Francis and Tom Weekes), Rights of Light: The Modern Law (Jordans Publishing, 2014)
Publisher:
Published Dec 2014
"Statutory Appeals (with Katherine Olley)", Garner's Environmental Law, 2014)
Published Sep 2014
"Procedure: the Early Stages (with Richard Drabble QC, Tim Buley and Toby Fisher)" (with Helen Fenwick, Sir Michael Supperstone, James Goudie QC, and the Honourable Mr Justice Walker), Supperstone, Goudie and Walker: Judicial Review, 2014)
Published Sep 2014
"Contaminated Land (with Jacqueline Lean)", Garner's Environmental Law, 2013)
Published Nov 2013
Book Reviews
Review of 'Administrative Law in Action: Immigration Administration' by Robert Thomas [2024] CLJ 608
DOI:
10.1017/S000819732400062X
Published Dec 2024
Review of 'Immigration Judicial Reviews: An Empirical Study', Robert Thomas and Joe Tomlinson [2024] JR 138
DOI:
10.1080/10854681.2024.2362073
Published Jun 2024
Review of 'Executive Decision-making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review', T.T. Arvind, Richard Kirkham, Daithi Mac Sithigh and Lindsay Stirton (eds) [2022] CLJ 433
Published Sep 2022
Review of 'The Anatomy of Administrative Law' by Joanna Bell [2021] CLJ 399
Published Jul 2021
Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks (eds): Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World (2018) 134 LQR 334
Published Mar 2018
Sarah Nason: Reconstructing Judicial Review [2017] JR 326
Published Sep 2017
Philip R Wood: The Fall of the Priests and the Rise of the Lawyers [2016] CLJ 644
Published Nov 2016
Richard Ekins: The Nature of Legislative Intent, OUP 2012 [2014] 18(1) Edin LR 170
Published Jan 2014
God, Justice, and Society: Aspects of Law and Legality in the Bible by Jonathan Burnside (2012) 16 Edin LR 470
Published Sep 2012
Case Notes
"Administrative Law Principles in Context: Environmental Assessment Goes up in Flames" [2024] CLJ 401
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197324000552
Published: Dec 2024
"Undue reticence on undue influence?" [2023] CLJ 21
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197323000132
Published: Apr 2023
"Friends of the Earth: At the Intersection of Environmental and Administrative Law?" (2021) 33(2) JEL 461
Published: Mar 2021
"Judicial Pushback - National Airports Policy Grounded" [2020] CLJ 208
Published: Mar 2020
"Hamid Principles in the Upper Tribunal" Solicitors Journal Affiliate Intelligence Vol 158 no 45 25-11-14
"Awards by the Financial Services Ombudsman and subsequent litigation" (2014) 30 JPN 162-167
Published: Sep 2014
"Regina (Buckinghamshire County Council and others) v. Secretary of State for Transport" Rev Euro Comp & Int Env Law, 23: 275–280
Published: Jul 2014
"The Requirement of an Oral Hearing in Judicial Review Claims" [2012] JR 326
Published: Dec 2012
"Lawyers funding litigation: a costly business" (2012) 28 PN 134
Published: May 2012
"The fitness of the fitness to practise panel" (2011) 27 PN 230
Published: Dec 2011
"Taking a (taxi) stand on legitimate expectations" (2011) 70 CLJ 287
Published: Jul 2011
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