Year of Call: 1990
Appointments: Attorney General’s Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (Civil)
Email: williamupton@6pumpcourt.co.uk
Recommendations: Legal 500, for Environmental Law, Chambers & Partners, for both Environmental and Planning Law
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Education
M.A., LL.M. (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1988 and 1989)
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Memberships
Member of the Planning, Local Government and Environmental Law Bar and the Administrative Law Bar Association; UK Environmental Law Association.
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Profile
William Upton is a barrister specialising in planning, environmental and local government law. As a result, his experience ranges from the House of Lords, Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court to the Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court, as well as planning inquiries. He has acted for local authorities, the Environment Agency, private developers and third parties. He has a particular interest in the overlap between planning and environmental law, and is a frequent lecturer on both areas.
Recent seminars have included Statutory Noise Nuisance, Dealing with The Development Plan Documents in Practice, Dealing with Waste from Contaminated Land, and Nature Conservation Law.
He is a member of the PEBA committee, and a former Council member of UKELA.
William Upton is recommended as a leading barrister for both environment and planning. In Chambers & Partners 2009 he is complemented for being a barrister who “keeps on producing the goods” and has a “great manner with clients.”
Publications
Neighbours and the Law
Editor 2006
Sweet and Maxwell
Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents
Joint Editor 2007
Town and Country Planning
Environmental Law
Editor, 1st and 2nd editions 2009
Oxford University Press
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