Landmark Chambers

Landmark Chambers provides advice and advocacy across planning, property, public, rating and valuation, and environmental law. Its work encompasses infrastructure and compulsory purchase, regulation, leasehold enfranchisement, mediation, and arbitration in the UK, Europe, and internationally.

The set’s barristers handle significant cases, inquiries, injunctions, and infrastructure projects. Recent involvement includes development of the Shard of Glass, passage of the Parliamentary Bills on Crossrail, challenges to the third runway at Heathrow, and advising on a major land reclamation scheme in Hong Kong. Several members serve as deputy High Court judges, recorders, arbitrators, experts, and mediators, with extensive litigation experience in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, European Court of Justice, European General Court, European Court of Human Rights, UN Aarhus Compliance Committee, Northern Ireland courts, and courts in multiple other jurisdictions, including Hong Kong.

In planning, Landmark remains at the forefront of UK and international practice, advising on major developments such as climate change projects, nuclear and renewable energy schemes, airport expansion, bridges and iconic buildings, rail and road infrastructure, and mixed-use housing and commercial projects.

The property team specialises in commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters, leasehold enfranchisement, boundary disputes, easements, restrictive covenants, mortgages, land registration, adverse possession, and proprietary estoppel. It is frequently instructed to advise on injunctions against squatters and protestors, particularly in prime Central London properties. Members regularly act for both landlords, including London Estates, and lessees, and provide specialist advice throughout all stages of leasehold enfranchisement cases, including related professional negligence claims.

Landmark’s public law practice covers judicial reviews, statutory tribunals, and inquiries, addressing issues in education, local government, social security, human rights, immigration, mental health, housing, prisons, planning, and environmental matters. Environmental law expertise complements this, with barristers advising on planning-related environmental challenges at all court levels.

In rating and valuation, members undertake work on compensation claims by public authorities, rating valuations, rent reviews, tax valuations, leasehold enfranchisement, and council tax assessments, contributing to leading cases in the UK and overseas.

Internationally, Landmark acts for private litigants and government bodies across its practice areas, appearing before the European Court of First Instance, European Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, and UNECE Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, and working in jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad, and Cambodia.

The Chambers is also committed to alternative dispute resolution, with members recognised in rent review arbitration, expert determination, and other mediation and arbitration roles. Several are qualified arbitrators and mediators and are included on the Bar Council’s list of counsel to act as independent experts.