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INDIVIDUAL GROUPS
RECRUITING PUPILS IN 2022

BUSINESS AND PROPER TY GROUP PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT GROUP
Members of the Business and Property As a first six pupil, you can expect to gain silly you think they may seem. In addition, Planning law concerns the use and development of well as the First Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal
group are leaders in heavyweight and experience in many of the above areas of law the junior members of the group regularly land. It affects the places we live, work, and play, and (generally in relation to the disclosure of information
complex dispute resolution. We have over through shadowing your primary supervisor organise informal social events which provide the way we travel between them. The way places relating to the environment).
50 barristers practising in specialist fields as well as other members of the group. In a welcome opportunity to bond, let off some are designed, developed or preserved, impacts on They frequently attend planning inquiries, hearings,
in Business and Property issues and offer doing so, you will gain exposure to advising steam and socialise with members in other us every day. Environmental law is closely related examinations in public and development consent
appropriate level of counsel for all matters. in conference; drafting advice, pleadings and groups. Throughout the year, the group also to planning, and there is a great deal of overlap order (“DCO”) hearings. Members represent
We are regularly recognised by Chambers skeleton arguments; attending mediations; hosts solicitors and other clients at a number between the two. Environmental law concerns and developers, land promoters, local authorities and
and Partners and the Legal 500 for the and undertaking court based advocacy. This of social, cultural and sporting events. regulates the impact of human activity on the natural parish councils, as well as action groups who want
excellent service that our members provide. exposure will be invaluable to you as you The clerks in the group are extremely world and its resources, including the air we breathe, to take part in the planning process. Members of the
Members appear in the Court of Appeal and start on your feet in your second six. committed and hard-working. They take and the water we drink. Planning Group have been appointed the Attorney
Supreme Court and have gone on to attain In second six, you can expect to be in a genuine interest in the development No5 is noted as being a “heavyweight in planning” General’s Panel of Counsel and so can advise and
judicial and political appointments, including court three to four times a week – regularly of members’ practices and are always and members do some “incredible work in the represent the government in relation to challenges to
as Attorney General. representing your clients in interim hearings on the lookout for opportunities for us to planning sector.” No5 is regarded as the “standout planning appeal decisions and to the adoption of new
The group covers a diverse range of and small claim and fast track trials. In develop business further – whether that be environmental set in the Midlands” - Chambers planning policy, for example
specialist subsets including Agriculture and addition, you will have a healthy paper based by attending a social event, presenting a UK. Members are also noted for their wide range Members of the Group have been involved in a
Rural Affairs; Banking, Finance and Financial practice. Many of our second six pupils seminar or simply meeting a new solicitor of expertise across construction, planning and number of high-profile cases including:
Regulation; Commercial Litigation; Company assist more senior members of the group for a coffee. As a tenant, you will find that environmental matters, including in infrastructure Nuclear power stations in Somerset and Anglesey
and Partnership; Inheritance Disputes, Wills, by devilling for them or acting as junior. you have a large amount of control over and development projects.”
Trusts and Estates; Insolvency; Insurance; Your earnings are likely to exceed your the direction of your career – in particular, The Planning and Environment group is home to Heathrow runway extensions
Intellectual Property, Information Technology guaranteed billings. over which of the subsets of Business and some of the leading barristers in the field of planning and Heathrow litigation
and Media; International Arbitration and Members of our group are friendly and Property work you ultimately wish to build and environment law. Richard Kimblin QC and The Shirley litigation concerning air quality impacts
Trade; Professional Negligence; Real diverse. You will find that there is always up a specialism in – and that you will be Peter Goatley QC head the group of six silks and Coventry Airport expansion
Estate; Sports and Media; and Technology someone to turn to should you have any supported by the clerking team throughout eighteen juniors. The promotion of new garden villages including
and Construction. questions or concerns, no matter how your journey. one in South Bedford for 19,000 new homes
Planning is a branch of public law in which decisions
are made by local authorities, the Secretary of State The Thames Tideway Super Sewer
for Housing, Communities and Local Government, the HS2
Welsh Ministers, or Inspectors appointed on behalf of The Wright litigation in the Supreme Court
the latter two. Those decisions may then be challenged considering material considerations
PERSONAL INJUR Y AND CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE GROUPS by way of judicial or statutory review. Members
regularly appear before all tribunals including the Members of the group have been involved in some of
The Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence throughout that time, continuing to develop levels of PI/CN work. This may be acting for specialist Planning Court, the Court of Appeal and the the most important cases relating to the interpretation
groups (PI/CN) are, combined, amongst the your understanding of these areas, whilst somebody injured in a work-place accident, Supreme Court. of the National Planning Policy Framework which
biggest at No5 and include four QC’s. The size also having somebody you can, and should, defending a clinician in a clinical negligence was first introduced in 2012, including thee Suffolk
ensures there are numerous barristers across ask questions of if you are unsure. The case, securing a settlement for somebody Members also appear in the Magistrates’ Courts, Coastal litigation in the Supreme Court on the
the full spectrum of experience, providing an large number of junior barristers also means with life-changing injuries from a road traffic the Crown Court (generally in relation to criminal interpretation of the NPPF, which involved four
invaluable support network during pupillage. that whatever your query or uncertainty, accident or representing a family at an breaches of heritage and environmental law), as members of the group.
By the time you begin doing your own cases somebody will be happy to help, be it on the inquest. Whatever your interest, there are
in your second six, you will have had plenty end of the telephone, by email, in chambers numerous opportunities to develop your PI/
of time to observe juniors doing the same or at court. Even as you increase in seniority, CN practice, and possibly beyond, at No5.
sort of cases you will be undertaking. This with a busy court practice developing in The group, as with chambers generally,
is in addition to having exposure to more quality and enhanced by increasing amounts comprises effective, efficient and engaging
complex cases with your pupil supervisor and of advisory work and pleadings, you can practitioners; good at what we do and

other barristers. expect a welcoming and helpful response to equally good to talk to after your case has
any queries you may have, as we all have finished. We look forward to welcoming you
When you do start off ‘on your feet’ in second throughout our time at No5. to the No5 Personal Injury and Clinical
six you can expect a busy court-based Negligence groups.
practice and to be in court most days. You will The groups undertake both claimant and
remain under the care of your pupil supervisor defendant work, across all areas and at all