Regulatory

Our specially trained barristers have extensive experience in animal welfare issues, ranging from domestic animals to wildlife conservation. We handle cases involving animal cruelty, neglect, illegal trade, and mistreatment. With an expert understanding of animal protection laws, the team effectively advocate for the rights and well-being of animals in various legal contexts, offering guidance on compliance with animal welfare regulations, representing clients in appeals and enforcement proceedings.

Our specialist team assists both individuals and companies and is regularly instructed by the Environment Agency and Local Authorities. Experience includes waste management, illegal waste sites, ozone depletion, and serious water pollution requiring European-wide notification and permitting issues.

Members of the Group are instructed on a broad range of matters, including advising on compliance, appeals of enforcement notices and the prosecution and defence of a variety of matters, ranging from simple cases where minor injury has occurred to high-profile proceedings with complex factual and/or legal matrices arising from catastrophic injury or fatality.

The St Philips Inquest Team members are highly motivated regulatory barristers who offer levels of experience and representation right across the professional spectrum. The team can cover everything from deaths in custody and medical institutions to fatalities in the workplace, unlawful killings and accidental deaths.

Our licensing barristers provide incisive advice and persuasive advocacy in respect of applications at first instance at sub-committee level and appeals to all levels of courts. Acting for licensing authorities, responsible authorities and venues/operators, our team prides itself on its practical approach, drawing on its wider experience across the regulatory spectrum to provide advice that is pragmatic, considered and commercially aware.

Our regulatory barristers cover all levels of prosecution and defence work, from advice on compliance to representation in the appellate courts, from the relatively straightforward to matters of the utmost gravity and complexity. Counsel are often instructed at a pre-charge/litigation stage to ensure that actions and resources are efficiently directed and focused on the critical issues.

Our four regulatory barristers are briefed to appear on behalf of Government departments and agencies such as the Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Health and Safety Executive. The work carried out by the Panel Counsel in Chambers has led to the development of Chambers’ expertise in the field of VAT, Customs and Excise Duty, as well as other indirect taxes such as the Aggregates Levy and Landfill Tax.