Year of call: 2021
Elana Kaymer practises across all areas of administrative and public law, with a particular focus on planning, highways, licensing and local government.
Her clients include local authorities and developers at all stages of the planning process. She has advised on and appeared in public inquiries, judicial review proceedings, appeals and enforcement actions including local authority prosecutions and injunctions involving the gypsy and traveller communities.
Elana successfully completed a specialist planning and public law pupillage at Kings under the supervision of John Hunter and Philip Robson. Prior to joining Chambers, Elana worked at LexisNexis where she tracked legal developments in areas including energy and environmental law and as a paralegal for a specialist immigration law chambers, with work often involving human rights matters.
Elana practises across all areas of administrative and public law, with a particular focus on planning, highways, licensing and local government.
She acts for local authorities, interested parties and developers. She has advised on and appeared in public inquiries, judicial review proceedings and appeals. This includes matters relating to enforcement, such as advising local authorities on the most appropriate actions and advising private clients on obtaining Lawful Development Certificates. Elana has appeared in the Magistrates Court in relation to local authority prosecutions as well as in the High Court for injunction applications including those involving the gypsy and traveller communities.
Worcestershire CC v Pain [2024] EWHC 913 (Admin)
Instructed (as junior to John Hunter) on behalf of a Local Authority in a successful appeal by way of case stated against the Crown Court’s decision to allow the respondents’ appeal against convictions for an offence of failing to comply with notices served under s.24 of the Land Drainage Act 1991. It was held that the correct interpretation of the notices was to require work that was necessary to reinstate the watercourse and that accordingly the Crown Court was wrong to find that the requirement was outside the authority’s powers.
Elana practises in all areas of public and administrative law. She advises and represents both local government and private clients in claims for judicial review, and has also appeared in the County and High Courts in injunction applications.
Worcestershire CC v Pain [2024] EWHC 913 (Admin)
Instructed (as junior to John Hunter) on behalf of a Local Authority in a successful appeal by way of case stated against the Crown Court’s decision to allow the respondents’ appeal against convictions for an offence of failing to comply with notices served under s.24 of the Land Drainage Act 1991. It was held that the correct interpretation of the notices was to require work that was necessary to reinstate the watercourse and that accordingly the Crown Court was wrong to find that the requirement was outside the authority’s powers.
