About Fiona
Fiona specialises in Environmental Law, acting for individuals, companies and local authorities across a range of regulatory and civil matters. Her practice includes Environmental Crime (defence work), Health and Safety, and Planning. She is experienced in the following areas of Environmental Litigation:
- Nuisance (statutory and private, noise, odour),
- Waste (from fly-tipping to landfill),
- Marine contamination,
- Safety in the work place,
- Housing,
- Judicial review,
- Toxic torts
Fiona’s Chancery Practice includes Trusts and Probate, in which she has a particular interest in capacity issues. She also works in Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy.
Advisory work:
Founder and Director of Law at Protimos, she advises on international legal issues affecting indigenous communities in emerging economies, including:
- Involuntary re-settlement
- Intellectual Property Rights in Biodiversity
- Land Rights
She welcomes instructions under the Direct Access Scheme.
Memberships
- Planning and Environmental Bar Association
- Bar European Group
- United Kingdom Environmental Lawyers Association (Trustee)
- Environmental Law Foundation
- ‘Belief in Mediation and Arbitration’ Mediator Group
Education
- LLM School of Oriental and African Studies London University
- CPE Nottingham Law School
- BA Hons Kings College London University
Notable Cases
Her Majesty’s Commissioners for Revenue and Customs v Mills [2007] EWHC 2241 (Ch)
Thoburn -v- City of Sunderland[2002] 4 All ER 156 (“Metric Martyrs” case, metrication directives,“constitutional statutes”)
R – v- Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport & the Regions, ex p Helen Mary Anscomb. QBD (Admin (Turner J) 7/2/001
Davies -v- Ilieff. Ch D (Bernard Livesey QC) 21/12/2000
UK Waste Management Ltd -v- (1) Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport & the Regions (2) Lancashire County Council. QBD (Crown Office List) (Judge Rich QC) 21/9/199