John Hunter

Practice:

Public & Administrative Law
Planning & Environmental
Social Housing
Immigration
Human Rights
Employment & Discrimination

Profile:

John practices in public law, planning and environmental, social housing and employment law. From 2004-5 John was judicial assistant to Lord Rodger and Lord Nicholls in the House of Lords. John was named as one of the 15 best planning barristers under 35 in Planning Magazine in 2008.

Public and Administrative law

(a)   Planning & Environmental Law

John advises and acts for claimants and public authorities in judicial review, statutory appeals and related proceedings concerning a wide range of planning and environmental law decisions.

John also acts regularly for planning authorities, developers and interested parties in planning inquiries. Recently, he has acted successfully for Northumberland County Council in resisting proposals for two windfarms near Berwick Upon Tweed (together with Paul Tucker), and for a local action group in resisting proposals for a regional-scale leisure, office and racecourse development in Salford.

(b)   Social Housing

John advises and acts for claimants and public authorities in homelessness, anti-social behaviour, possession and injunctive proceedings relating to social housing.

(c)    Immigration

John advises and acts for claimants and public authorities in judicial review proceedings relating to immigration/nationality decisions.

(d)  Other areas

John also advises and acts for claimants and public authorities in other areas of public law, including licensing, community care, prison law and education.

Reported cases in which he has been involved include:

Calderdale MBC –v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2009] EWHC 2986 Admin

Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster) –v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 333; [2009] JPL 1326 (led by Frances Patterson QC)

Nextdom (Bootle) Ltd and Ors -v - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor [ 2008] JPL 984 ;

R (Lewis) –v- Redcar and Cleveland BC and another [2008] JPL 1156 (led by Frances Patterson QC)

John also obtained extensive experience in a wide range of public law and human rights cases whilst he worked as a judicial assistant in the House of Lords. Amongst the most notable of these was A and ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2006) 2 AC 221 concerning the detention of terrorist suspects without trial.

Employment Law/Discrimination

John advises and appears on behalf of claimants and employers in employment tribunal and related proceedings, including appeals to the EAT. His work covers the full range of employment law and discrimination issues.

Memberships:

Planning and Environmental Bar Association
Administrative Law Bar Association
Amnesty International
Northern and North Eastern Circuit

Panels:

Junior Counsel to the Crown since 2008

 

Career & Education:

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Oxford University, The Queen's College

 

MA (Oxon) Philosophy and Spanish, M.St. Oxon European Literature 

Inns of Court School of Law

 



 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

John Hunter 

 

Year of Call:  2002

Specialises In:
Planning, Environment &
Public Law

Clerked by:
 Mark Ronson

 

 

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