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Brendan Brett

Brendan is an established public and administrative law junior specialising in the regulation of the use, development and management of land.

His areas of expertise include planning (under both the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and for nationally significant infrastructure projects); highways and rights of way; waterways, water resources, and the law relating to the foreshore and coast; and open spaces (commons, greens, and rights of access). Public, land, and environmental law issues cut across and inform all these areas.

Brendan appears as sole counsel before committees, inspectors, courts and tribunals at every level, from the Court of Appeal to local authorities. He has also appeared as junior counsel in the tribunal system, High Court and Court of Appeal.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Welsh Panel

Qualified Year

  • 2017

Experience

  • Francis Taylor Building (2020 - Present)
  • Department for Business Energy and Industrian Strategy (2019 - 2019)
  • Department for Transport (2018 - 2019)
  • Government Legal Department (2017 - 2018)

Membership

  • Planning and Environmental Bar Association
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Qualifications

  • LLM (2016)
  • GDL (2015)
  • BA (Hons) (2014)

Education

  • University College, London (2015-2016)
  • Oxford Brookes University (2014-2015)
  • Somerville College, University of Oxford (2011-2014)

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