
‘A’ List Counsel List on the Attorney General’s specialist Health and Safety and Environmental Panel
CPS Specialist Panels – Serious Crime, Proceeds of Crime and Fraud
Visiting Research Fellow in Environmental Law at University of West of England
Trustee of the Conservation Collective
LLB (Hons)
Brendon Moorhouse is an established environmental, planning and regulatory barrister, acting as both leading counsel and senior-junior counsel in cases throughout England and Wales.
He is regularly instructed in large-scale criminal waste and water cases that include some of the biggest prosecutions in the country.
He is also instructed in significant environmental permitting cases as well as dealing with public inquiry work on projects such as Hinkley C cooling system marine permit conditions, Bristol Airport expansion and the then proposed M4 motorway extension around Newport. He has extensive practical experience dealing with Habitats and Marine Regulation.
Brendon Moorhouse is frequently instructed in planning appeals and enforcement cases including those with wider environmental concerns such as the UK’s largest unlawful AD plant and alleged condition breaches for a gas peaking plant.
Experienced in nuisance cases, he has been instructed to represent clients ranging from a motor manufacturing plant, a power station to a metal smelting plant.
April 2022
Dogger Bank marine protection to be increased
Brendon Moorhouse, supporting the Blue Marine Foundation legal challenge, helped secure increased protection for an important Marine Protected Area. Byelaws banning trawling and dredging will be brought in for Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was the site of a Greenpeace protest that saw the ...
read moreOctober 2021
Six Pump Court welcomes Brendon Moorhouse
Six Pump Court is pleased to announce that specialist environmental and regulatory law barrister Brendon Moorhouse has joined Chambers. Recognised in both the Chambers UK Bar Guide and the Legal 500, Brendon is one of the leading practitioners in the environmental field. He is regularly ...
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