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Barrister @39EssexChambers practising in human rights, health, sport and environmental matters

Joined July 2018
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Stonehenge campaigners challenge the decision to give repeat approval for a road scheme through the World Heritage Site. @RowWilliamSmith represents the campaigners with @HuttonVictoria, @StephDavid11 of @39EssexChambers & David Wolfe KC of @matrixchambers leighdaylaw.info/3OXDTIY
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Join us virtually! 📹 Stephen Tromans KC, Professor Alison Young, Steph David and Ruth Keating will provide their views on the new Act, which will include an overview of how it should operate, where difficulties may arise, and the impact of the Act on environmental protection.
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🚨BREAKING: Lord Debden - The UK's most senior climate advisor and former environment secretary under Margaret Thatcher - has strongly backed Labour's pledge to halt new North Sea oil and gas drilling. If they can see it's the right thing to do, why can't the government?
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The other parties with permission to intervene are Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace UK and West Cumbria Mining Ltd
⚡️Power play: The @UKSupremeCourt has given the @OfficeforEP the go-ahead to intervene in a legal battle over the #SurreyHills oil 🛢️ drilling case on the basis the appeal will help develop principles for determining the “proper approach” to indirect effects under #EIA rules.
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So proud to be in chambers with such brilliant women.
On this beautiful day, Chambers is delighted to announce that Nicola Greaney KC, Fiona Paterson KC and Katherine Apps KC have officially been appointed as King's Counsel.
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This time for Africa!! 👏🇲🇦 #WorldCup
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Important new ECtHR case: GM v Moldova 🧑‍⚖️ 3 women with intellectual disabilities detained in an institution, raped by doctor then had nonconsensual abortions, and for 1 woman insertion of IUD. Violation of substantive and procedural limbs of Art 3 ECHR. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press…
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Judgment on capacity and hoarding. Decision = managing items and belongings, rather than property and affairs more generally, and guidance on relevant information is provided: AC and GC (Capacity: Hoarding: Best Interests) [2022] EWCOP 39 (15 August 2022) bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/20…
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Next up, we had our panel @NikkiDryden @KatCraig1 @d_mavromati @ifeanyiodogwu @StephDavid11 discussing human rights issues in sports along with the potential remedies for violations in sport #LISconf22
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Breakfast Briefing: A Practitioner’s Guide to the UK’s Bill of Rights. This free webinar will take place on 5th July. See here for details and to register: 39essex.com/breakfast-briefi… @SteveBroach @emilywilsdon @kerbarnes @StephDavid11 #publiclaw
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Victory for Jenni Richards QC, Catherine Dobson and Stephanie David in the High Court in relation to the posthumous use of an embryo. They successfully acted for Mr Jennings, a widower, instructed by James Lawford Davies of Hill Dickinson. @StephDavid11 @jlawforddavies

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We are pleased to announce that our main empirical paper is now published, open access. We show how, from the legal practitioner perspective, courtroom practice & judicial adjudication in English mental capacity law is fundamentally ‘human’ in character cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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A challenge has been brought by the Good Law Project to the award of contracts for antibody tests. Stephanie David was led by Joseph Barrett and Rupert Paines, instructed by Alex Rook of Rook Irwin Sweeney, to act on behalf of the Good Law Project. Read more below @StephDavid11

High Court hears an application from Ted Jennings for a declaration that it is lawful to use an embryo, created with his and his late wife’s gametes, with a surrogate. Jenni Richards QC, Catherine Dobson and Stephanie David act for Mr Jennings, instructed by James Lawford Davies.

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