John Hunter

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Year of Call: 2002

John practises principally in the areas of administrative & public law, planning, environmental, regulatory & disciplinary and employment law. From 2004-5 John was judicial assistant to Lord Rodger and Lord Nicholls in the House of Lords. In 2008 he was included in Planning Magazine's survey of the best planning barristers under 35.

Since 2008 he has been appointed to the Treasury Panel.

Environmental Law

John practises across several areas within environmental law. Recently, he was instructed in judicial review proceedings challenging the lawfulness of a local authority's decision to grant itself permission on the basis of a failure to carry out EIA or appropriate assessment under the Habitats Directive. He is currently instructed in a major statutory nuisance appeal concerning the use of Elvington airfield outside York city centre for motorsports.

Cases

Calderdale MBC -v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2009] EWHC 2986 Admin (Planning/s.38(6) PCPA 2004/Fairness & Natural Justice/Housing Land Supply)

Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster) -v- Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Ors [2009] JPL 1326 (led by Frances Patterson QC) (Planning/Alternative Uses/Viability)

Nextdom (Bootle) Ltd and Ors -v - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor [2008] JPL 984 (Human Rights/Compulsory Purchase)

R (Lewis) -v- Redcar and Cleveland BC and another [2008] JPL 1156 (led by Frances Patterson QC) (Local Government/Bias/Predetermination/Habitats Directive)

Recommendations/ Memberships/Publications

PEBA

ALBA

NALA

Amnesty International

Career & Education

Oxford University, The Queen's College:

- BA Hons Philosophy & Spanish Literature (First Class)

- MSt European Literature (Distinction)

- Gibbs Prize for Performance in Philosophy Final Honour School

Northumbria University:

- CPE/PgDip Law (Commendation)

Inns of Court School of Law:

- BVC (Very Competent)

Inn of Court

Lincoln's Inn

- Sir Thomas More Scholarship