Landmark Chambers has poached highly rated planning junior Robert Walton from 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. Walton joins Landmark today (18 September). Walton’s practice covers planning, local authority and transport law and he has acted for parties including the Secretary of State for Transport on issues relating to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Landmark head Christopher Katkowski QC said the hire affirmed the set’s profile in planning law.
Human rights groups slate Colombia’s new Peace and Justice Law
Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe’s record at curbing the bloodshed caused by crossfire between the country’s left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries was key to his re-election in May. But in seeking to complete a demobilisation of paramilitaries that was agreed earlier in the year, President Uribe, a former lawyer, has passed a law seen by many […]
