07 06 2022
Public Guardian v RI [2022] EWCOP 22
Katharine was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel in 2021. Prior to and since her appointment, she has been instructed by both the GLD and HMRC to act in complex, high value litigation alongside leading counsel.
She also has extensive experience in private and public inquiry work, including acting as junior counsel to the Dame Linda Dobbs Review commissioned by Lloyds Banking Group.
Katharine’s extensive knowledge of trusts, probate and general private client law makes her exceptionally well placed to advise in cases where public and private law issues meet. She also handles cases at the interface of public and criminal law.
Katharine accepts public access and pro bono instructions where appropriate.
A strong believer in promoting both access to justice and diversity at the Bar, Katharine regularly accepts pro bono instructions through Advocate, is a session leader and mentor for BME Legal and champions access to legal work experience for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. She is also a tutor with The Access Project, a charity which supports students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities.
Beyond the Bar, Katharine sings as a soprano with the Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir and previously sang with the London Symphony Chorus. She is a keen rugby union fan and played for Haringey Rhinos RFC until she retired from the sport in 2019. She also enjoys a casual game of netball.
A keen linguist, Katharine speaks Italian and French and has studied German, Russian and Mandarin.
Katharine accepts instructions in all areas of planning law, advising individuals, local authorities, planning consultants and land agents across a wide range of matters including:
Katharine regularly provides advice and representation in judicial review and statutory challenges to planning decisions, including as sole counsel, as well as at all stages of the planning decision making process.
Katharine has particular expertise in advising on issues arising from the material change of use of residential property, including as a result of HMO and Airbnb/short term rental usage. She has also provided advice in connection with nationally significant infrastructure projects.
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Katharine accepts instructions in all areas of environment law, advising individuals, planning consultants, land agents, local authorities, government departments, regulators and other public bodies across a wide range of matters including:
Katharine has provided advice in connection with nationally significant infrastructure projects.
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Katharine accepts instructions in all areas of public law, including judicial review. She advises and represents individuals, local authorities, government departments and other public bodies across a wide range of sectors including education, health and social care (including funding issues), mental health, immigration, tax and election law. As an advocate, she has appeared as both sole and junior counsel in the County Court, High Court, First-tier and Upper Tribunals and Coroners’ courts.
She was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel in 2021. Prior to that appointment, she was instructed by both the GLD and HMRC to assist in the conduct of complex, high value litigation alongside leading counsel. This has included claims under Article 1 Protocol 1, claims for Frankovich damages arising out of judicial review proceedings and high value tax litigation dealing with complex offshore asset holding structures.
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Katharine also has extensive experience in private and public inquiry work, including acting as junior counsel to the Dame Linda Dobbs Review commissioned by Lloyds Banking Group.
Katharine has been a contributor to the Association of Electoral Administrators ‘Arena’ magazine, writing on issues such as election fraud and voter disability discrimination. She spoke on election law and litigating elections at the ALBA Summer Conference 2021.
Katharine has an extensive Court of Protection practice, providing advice and representation to individuals (including via the Official Solicitor), local authorities, healthcare bodies and the Public Guardian in both health and welfare and property and affairs cases. Katharine has dealt as sole counsel in the County and High Courts with complex proceedings, handling capacity and best interests disputes covering:
Health and Welfare
Property and Affairs
Katharine also regularly provides advice and representation in connection with the validity and revocation of Lasting Powers of Attorney and the appointment of deputies.
In addition to being one of the few barristers with an established practice in both health and welfare and property and affairs, her expertise in public and private client law make her well placed to advise on overlapping issues of law (such as education, health and social care, human rights and judicial review challenges) and complex procedural questions (from injunctions and reporting restrictions to the interface with criminal and family law proceedings, including issues of disclosure).
Katharine also has experience with cases under the Mental Health Act 1983 and is well placed to advise on the interface with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
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Katharine is a member of the Court of Protection Bar Association and contributed to its response to the Government’s proposed reforms to Lasting Powers of Attorney in 2021. She also regularly writes articles and delivers talks and training sessions on Court of Protection matters.
Katharine regularly provides advice and representation to individuals, local authorities and government departments in education law matters, acting as sole and junior counsel in the First-tier Tribunal and in the High Court.
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Katharine accepts instructions in all areas of rating law, advising and representing ratepayers, local authorities and the VOA. She has particular expertise in issues arising from redevelopment/reconstruction/refurbishment and completion notices.
Katharine also advises on valuation issues arising in other contexts, including Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings.
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Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
Development Consent Orders
Development Contribution: Section 106 and CIL
Development Plans and other planning policy
Energy
Environment
Green Belt
Heritage
Highways, Footpaths and Rights of Way
Infrastructure
Minerals and Waste
Neighbourhood Planning
Planning Appeals, Inquiries and Hearings
Planning Enforcement and Injunctions
Planning Judicial and Statutory Reviews
Residential
Aarhus Convention and Environmental Justice
Air Quality
Climate Change and Emissions Trading
Ecology and Biodiversity
Energy
Environmental Assessment (Environmental Outcomes)
Environmental Regulation
Habitats and Species
Nuisance
Pollution and Contaminated Land
Protection of the Countryside
Utilities
Waste
Water
Wildlife
Court of Protection
Education
Energy and Utilities
EU Law post-Brexit
High Court Planning
Highways and Public Rights of Access
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Immigration
Judicial Review
Local Government including Local Government Finance
NHS, Health and Community Care
Public Inquiries and Inquests
Council Tax
Non-Domestic Rates Litigation
Valuation Disputes
Energy
EU Law post-Brexit
Local Government
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Public Guardian v RI [2022] EWCOP 22
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Appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel
So 'water' now for sewer discharges? (UKELA) (May 2023)
Challenging findings of fact about foreign law: Dos and Don’ts (Perry v Lopag Trust Reg (No 2)) (Lexis) (June 2023)
Deprivation of Liberty Seminar (November 2022) (Lexis)
Specificity in Education, Health and Care Plans (DN v Cornwall CC) (13 October 2022) (Lexis)
Powers of Attorney: Creating the bulletproof LPA (October 2022) (Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal)
Approach to retrospective determinations of LPA capacity clarified (Public Guardian v RI & others) (July 2022) (Lexis)
Disability and the Right to Vote: Reflections on R (Andrews) v Minister for the Cabinet Office (No 1) [2019] EWHC 1126 (Admin) and R (Andrews) v Minister for the Cabinet Office (No 2) [2021] EWHC 2233 (Admin) (November 2021) (ARENA Magazine)
“You don’t have the votes!” Challenging political election results in England & Wales (February 2021) (ARENA Magazine)
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