Justine Thornton
- Year called: 1994
- Email: justine.thornton@39essex.com
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Recommendations
Justine is recommended for her Environmental expertise by both the Legal 500 2009 and Chambers & Partners 2010. She was shortlisted for Chambers & Partners Environmental and Planning Junior of the Year 2009.
Quotes
"intelligent, thorough, enthusiastic and pleasant." Chambers & Partners 2010
"Extremely hard working, bright and knowledgeable" Chambers & Partners 2009
"sound, hands-on application of environmental law" Chambers & Partners 2009
"up to speed and switched on" Chambers & Partners 2008
"charming and highly committed" Chambers & Partners 2007
"first-class" Legal 500 2009
"excellent junior" Legal 500 2007
Appointments
Junior Counsel to the Crown. Member of the Attorney General's C Panel
Advocate for the Welsh Assembly Government (Junior Counsel Panel)
Case Law Editor for Journal of Environmental Law
Co-convenor of UKELA Working Party on Environmental Litigation: 2000 -2008
Government Adviser on environment and biotechnology: 1999-2005
Visiting Lecturer at the Academy of European Law, Trier, Germany: 1998-1999
Appointed to the Attorney General's Freedom of Information Act panel
Significant Cases
R (Akester) v Defra & Wightlink & Others
R (Newport City Council) v Welsh Ministers , [2009] EWHC 3149
(1) Ainsley David Powell (2) Jane Shergar Irani v (1) Secretary Of State For The Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (2) Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, [2009] EWHC 643 (Admin)
R (Horner) v Lancashire County Council & Castle Cement Ltd, [2007] EWCA Civ 784
United Utilities Water Plc ( test case appeals on sewer overflows), 2006 and 2007
Related News
Publications
Case Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law OUP 2009
Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law (General Editor) Sweet & Maxwell 2009
Environmental Law (First and Second editions) Sweet & Maxwell 2009
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004: A Guide to the New Law Law Society 2005
Taking Responsibility: Personal liability under environmental law Earthscan Publications 2000
Articles
Annual Environmental Law Update January 2009
Sweet & Maxwell Case Law Review December 2008
Waste Case Law Update October 2008
Costs on Judicial Review Proceedings October 2008
Pollution Prevention and Control 2008
United Kingdom Environmental Lawyers Association Hot Cases 2008
Waste and Public Procurement 2008
Contaminated Land – Caselaw Update (January 2008, Justine Thornton)
A Selection of the Year's Hottest Cases (November 2007, Justine Thornton)
Environmental Law Update (November 2007, Justine Thornton)
The Year's Hottest Cases (June 2007, Justine Thornton)
The Definition of Waste (December 2006, Justine Thornton)
Recent Cases on Environmental Impact Assessment and a Note on Strategic Environmental Assessment (November 2006, Justine Thornton)
Facing the Future: Recent developments in waste law (September 2006, Justine Thornton)
Added Aggravation (July 2006, Justine Thornton)