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Richard Kimblin KC is joined by Hugh Richards and Howard Leithead for Episode 38 of the Planning Podcast....

Date: Wed, 24 May 2023
In this Planning Podcast, Richard Kimblin KC is joined once again by James Corbet Burcher to discuss NDMPs...

Date: Wed, 10 May 2023
In this Planning Podcast, James Corbet Burcher helps us look ahead to plan making as envisaged in the Levelling Up etc Bill...

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023
The Planning Podcast returns this new year for a very particular purpose, pupillage...

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023
On Monday 10th October, The Planning and Environment Group presented a webinar on 'Southwest Planning Matters'....

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022
On Monday 3rd October, The Planning and Environment Group presented a webinar on 'Case Law Update....

Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022
The Commonwealth Games must provide a legacy for the legal industry to join together in order to tackle the multiple challenges being faced by member nations, according to discussions at a recent two-day event....

Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022
Planning takeaways from the White Paper. In this episode, Sioned Davies picks out the key messages which have an impact on town centres, employment land policy, Green Belt and devolution, so that you do not have to read all four documents and the 332 page White Paper....

Date: Fri, 13 May 2022
Planning takeaways from the White Paper. In this episode, Sioned Davies picks out the key messages which have an impact on town centres, employment land policy, Green Belt and devolution, so that you do not have to read all four documents and the 332 page White Paper....

Date: Fri, 13 May 2022
In this episode of the Planning Podcast, Richard Kimblin QC is joined by Will Rundle, Head of Legal at Friends of the Earth...

Date: Tue, 10 May 2022
Environmental statements and climate change impact – [1] Dissent in the Court of Appeal In this episode of the Planning Podcast,...

Date: Wed, 04 May 2022
Maria Mulla discussed the guiding principles behind obtaining a search order and why they are necessary in some cases. Maria also talked through some practical examples....

Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022
Originally broadcast on the 21st January, David, Henry, Esther and Oliver discussed last months judgement handed down by the Court of Appeal in the conjoined cases of Purchase v Ahmed, Polmear v Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust...

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022
In this practical take on motorway service areas and Green Belt very special circumstances, Christian Hawley and Thea Osmund-Smith join Richard Kimblin QC in identifying the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ in this competitive area of work....

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022
In this seminar, Chris Young QC, Thea Osmund-Smith and James Corbet Burcher draw on their practical experience to explain what makes a strong VSC case...

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021
A challenge to a North Sea consent might not immediately strike you as a ’need to know’. But if you do need to know any of the following, listen in...

Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021
Originally broadcast on the 7th October, No5’s Sioned Davies, Oliver Lawrence and Howard Leithead joined Scott Stemp for a webinar about Planning Enforcements...

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021
Originally broadcast on the 30th September, Hugh Richards and Tim Jones discussed gypsies, travellers and injunctions...

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021
Originally broadcast on the 20th September 2021, Jack Smyth, Howard Leithead and Sioned Davies gave a webinar on Statutory Nuisance...

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021
Back for the autumn, the Planning Podcast turns to a five-case legal update...

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021
In the final vlog in the series, Dr Louisa Sherlock, No5 barrister and former dental surgeon, discusses the topic of oral cancer with Henry Pitchers QC...

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021
In this vlog, Dr Louisa Sherlock, No5 barrister and former dental surgeon, discusses Part 35 questions with Charlotte Robinson-Jones...

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021
Dr Louisa Sherlock, barrister and former dental surgeon, hosts the third in a series of dental negligence vlogs....

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021
Dr Louisa Sherlock, barrister and former dental surgeon, hosts the second in a series of dental negligence vlogs....

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021
Originally broadcast in July 2021, Richard Kimblin QC and Nina Pindham gave a webinar on climate change case law....

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021
Hosted by No5's Lois Norris and cohosted by Carin Hunt, in this seminar, Sarah Crowther QC takes us through the history of accommodation claims...

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021
In the wake of Freedom Day on 19 July, Changez Khan and Naomi Owen consider Long-Covid as...

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021
This video discusses the decision with John Coughlan QC, Jamie Gamble, Rebecca Livesey and Imogen Halstead...

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021
In this episode, The Planning Podcast looks to Wales for a lead. We find positive, modern and innovative approaches to the environment...

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021
No5’s Varsha Jagadesham and David Gardner hosted a webinar that provided an update on recent developments in the Court of Protection....

Date: Thu, 27 May 2021
No5 Barristers’ Chambers and Robert Hunter, of City Disabilities, explore issues of etiquette around disability and how to avoid causing offence....

Date: Thu, 27 May 2021
The Planning Podcast looks at the long, indeed the seemingly never-ending, examination and considers the scope for and potential impact of reform. With guests Jerry Youle, Inspector and Professional Lead for local plans at the Planning Inspectorate, Satnam Choongh, Planning and Environmental barrister at No5 Barristers' Chambers, Tim Burden and David Murray-Cox, each planning Directors at Turley, Richard Kimblin QC explores the practical problems which can cause local plan examinations to take years, and what might be done to help....

Date: Tue, 25 May 2021
Philip Mantle and Rebecca Livesey discuss: In-person and online mediation - Early neutral evaluation when it’s privately through the parties or mandated by the court....

Date: Mon, 17 May 2021
Philip Mantle and Rebecca Livesey discuss: In-person and online mediation - Early neutral evaluation when it’s privately through the parties or mandated by the court....

Date: Mon, 17 May 2021
In one of the Planning Podcast’s ‘long-listens’, we bring together guests with long experience and real insight into planning for one of England’s most complex and dynamic areas in which so much is playing out: linear infrastructure; local and London’s unmet housing need; connecting hubs of growth and innovation; spatial strategies across districts and regions; new governance structures and a particular role for Government in forward planning....

Date: Tue, 11 May 2021
Mohammed Zaman QC and Maria Mulla discussed the topic of International Arbitration with Rama Appadoo, the Registrar of The Mediation and Arbitration Center (Mauritius) - MARC. They shared their views and experiences on arbitrator bias, misconduct and the seat of arbitration....

Date: Fri, 07 May 2021
In a rather more formal context, that is what the High Court had to decide last week with the widely reported outcome that local authority council meetings may not continue to take place virtually in England, absent primary legislation. That is the spoiler about the result of the case, but how and why did we get to that position and what are the practical work arounds?...

Date: Wed, 05 May 2021
The Planning Podcast turns to look at the practical effect of town and village green registration through the case of TW Logistics. Where a long standing use and activity co-exists with recreational uses, will that activity mean that the landowner will commit an offence under the ‘Victorian Statutes’?...

Date: Wed, 05 May 2021
Dr Louisa Sherlock, barrister and former dental surgeon, hosts the first in a series of dental negligence vlogs. The series is aimed at junior dental negligence solicitors, or those solicitors starting out in the field....

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021
In the first podcast episode, Maria Mulla and Alexander Heylin of No5 Barristers’ Chambers, speak with Iskander Fernandez, a Partner at BLM who they first met at English Law Week in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2019....

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021
No5 Barristers’ Chambers teamed up with Saunders Solicitors’ to host two webinars examing the common law regime and the practical steps needed to enforce a judgment obtained in these jurisdictions in the UK....

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021
No5 Barristers’ Chambers teamed up with Saunders Solicitors’ to host two webinars examing the common law regime and the practical steps needed to enforce a judgment obtained in these jurisdictions in the UK....

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021
Episode 3: Aids and Equipment from the Schedule School series is now available on YouTube. Following on from Care and Case Management, in this episode Gemma Roberts takes us through aids and equipment, from household items, to wheelchairs, to exoskeletons....

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021
In the latest video from the No5 Clinical Negligence Group, Chris Bright QC, John Coughlan QC, Gemma Roberts, and Neil Shastri-Hurst will be exploring the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the interpretation of the appropriate standard of care....

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021
In a webinar marking their appointment to silk in this year’s competition, David Tyack and John Coughlan analyse and clarify the law relating to injuries and losses suffered at various stages of pregnancy....

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021
In this webinar Alexander Heylin and Maria Mulla on No5 Barristers' Chambers Insolvency Team will provide an in-depth consideration of; The implications of Schedule 10 of CIGA 2020,   Re A Company [2020] EWHC 1551 and other test cases dealt with by Alex and Maria,  The Insolvency Practice Direction and practical tips!...

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021
As we approach the anniversary of remote working, Richard Kimblin QC and guests share practical tips and guidance for future virtual and hybrid hearings, inquiries, examinations and trials. Richard is delighted to introduce Sioned Davies to The Planning Podcast, joined by regulars Oliver Lawrence and Howard Leithead...

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021
In the latest podcast from the Clinical Negligence group at No5 Barristers' Chambers, David Tyack, Charlotte Robinson-Jones, Andrew Rhodes, and Neil Shastri-Hurst discuss Bradfield-Kay v Cope [2020] EWHC 1352 (QB), a case which raises interesting points on the issue of expert evidence....

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021
We are pleased to let you know that Episode 2: Care and Case Management, from the Schedule School series, is now available...

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021
Richard Kimblin QC hosts a short podcast with Satnam Choongh and Christian Hawley, planning and environmental barristers at No5 Barristers' Chambers, to look at two cases from the Court of Appeal which address the tilted balance....

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021
No5's Lois Norris recently launched Schedule School, a free resource, hosted by juniors, guided by seniors. Schedule School aims to take practitioners through schedules of loss in bite sized chunks, one head of a loss at a time...

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021
With Satnam Choongh, planning and environmental barrister at No5, Richard Kimblin QC introduces the first of a pair of Planning Podcasts looking at practical points from two recent Court of Appeal Cases....

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021
This webinar looks at recent interesting cases and important developments in costs matters. The aim is to help practitioners comply with the Civil Procedure Rules and achieve the best outcomes in hearings relating to costs, including applications for relief from sanctions for late costs budgets....

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021
The webinar will include talks on: Planning Reforms: How much legislative change could there actually be? Why proceed with the promotion of a local plan? Is now the time to promote and make substantial applications? Environment Bill: The row about the regulator and why it matters. Environmental principles in a planning context. Environmental targets and what plans and projects should be aiming for. CIL / S106: Land value capture – where did this come from and why would it be a big deal? Where does the money go and why are the proposals radical? Standard method update: Where we are now? Levelling up...

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
From the No5 Barristers Chambers Annual Local Planning Authority Webinar, Effective Performance at Appeal with Leanne Buckley-Thomson...

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021
Local Plans: Lessons from Recent Examinations with Hugh Richards - From the No5 Barristers' Chambers Planning Group's Planning Local Authority Webinar 2020...

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021
Case Law Update from Richard Humphreys QC from the Planning and Environment Group's Local Planning Webinar 2020....

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020
The webinar will include talks on the planning white paper, changes to PD rights and use classes order, Community Levy Infrastructure, how to prevent challenge at committee followed by case law, local plan and appeals updates....

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020
Spotting key themes and evolving issues from 2020, the top tips team turns to small housing sites; the continued impact and evolution of the Rosewell Review; the recovery, a top tip from Leanne Buckley-Thomson and an issue which will dominate for decades to come - climate....

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020
With the ever-up-to-date-team of Leanne Buckley Thomson, Howard Leithead and Oliver Lawence,  a package of what has made them sit up and take notice in the planning and environmental world in the last couple of weeks: highways impacts and the Framework, a curious consent in Snowdonia and an update on penalties for environmental offences....

Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020
You might think it is obvious – you increase housing land supply, you improve affordability. That is a premise of much forward planning and of Planning for the Future. Is that correct and straightforward, or not?...

Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020
In this vlog Rebecca Livesey discusses an ongoing case of Esther Gamble’s with her. Permission to appeal has been given in Esther’s case; the parties are waiting to find out if the Court of Appeal will give permission in Paul v Wolverhampton before proceeding further. There is more discussion of Paul v Wolverhampton in our previous vlog....

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020
The Planning Podcast turns to design, coding and making beautiful places for communities. With Professor Robert Adam, in conversation with Leanne Buckley-Thompson, planning and environmental barrister at No5 Chambers....

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020
This webinar is a comprehensive overview of what employers need to do to ensure they have complied with their obligations in any collective consultation process....

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020
With the ever-up-to-date-team of Leanne Buckley Thompson, Howard Leithead and Oliver Lawence they have packaged up a short and quick fire review of what has made them sit up and take notice in the planning world in the last couple of weeks....

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020
A panel discussion about practical experience preparing for and conducting Employment Tribunal hearings via the cloud video platform (CVP), hearings in person and hybrid hearings....

Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020
Christopher Perry is once again joined by Adam Burrell, Charles Crow and Richard McLoughlin where they discuss solicitor/client assessments, in particular the success fee challenges following Herbert v HH Law....

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020
The recent Court of Appeal (and eagerly awaited Supreme Court) decision in Ho v Adelekun [2020} EWCA Civ 517 relating to costs set off in QOCS cases. We are delighted to welcome Adam Burrell from DAC Breachcoft where he is a partner and Head of Costs....

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020
Join barristers Jamie Gamble, Henry Pitchers QC, Matthew Brunning and Lois Norris in the latest vlog from the personal injury and clinical negligence groups at No5 as they discuss the recent Court of Appeal decision of Swift v Carpenter and what it means for the future of accommodation claim....

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020
With Nina Pindham, planning and environmental barrister at No5 Barristers' Chambers, Council member and Trustee of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association, we get right up to date....

Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020
This presentation seeks to provide one possible route to positively determining sexual identity refugee claims - the Difference, Stigma, Shame and Harm model (‘the DSSH model’) as a positive, and not (negatively) determinative tool...

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020
James Corbet Burcher joins Richard Kimblin QC for the second Planning Podcast dedicated to Richard's upcoming book release "Planning appeals: Practice and materials" where they discuss insights into the key elements of the modern planning appeal...

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020
Richard Kimblin QC welcomes Bridget Rosewell OBE, author of the Independent Review of Planning Appeal Inquiries, to the Planning Podcast for Part 1 of 2 for his upcoming book release: Planning Appeals: Practice and Materials....

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020
In this edition we turn to cities. With Ben Rogers, Director of the Centre for London we explore major issues arising from the pandemic: the immediate downturn; suppressed demand; the role of innovators and the young....

Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020
Michelle Heeley QC and Simon Hunka discuss their experiences of trials being conducted in the Covid – era. They offer helpful tips in respect of preparing these cases from the perspective of both Prosecution and Counsel. They offer an insight into the challenges faced by conducting trials in these new circumstances and suggest ways that the courts could move forward....

Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020
No5 Barristers Richard Moat, Karl Hirst, John Coughlan and Gemma Roberts discuss the changes brought in by the latest version of the Ogden Tables and explanatory notes and give practical advice on the likely effects....

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020
Rebecca Livesey, Neil Shastri-Hurst, Oliver May and Louisa Sherlock discuss the recent clinical negligence case of Paul v Wolverhampton NHS Trust and its potential implications for future secondary victim claims....

Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020
Join the No5 Court of Protection team in their fourth podcast in this series. In this episode we look as some recent judgments handed down on mental capacity....

Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020
Jamie Gamble and Matthew Brunning discuss the tension in care claims in serious personal injury cases between the need for continuing risks to claimants to be minimised and their need for independence and autonomy, and how those issues (and care claims generally) are likely to be impacted by the COVID pandemic...

Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020
Oliver Lawrence joins Richard Kimblin QC to talk through some of the experience to date of virtual hearings, examinations and trials and we look at the upsides, the downsides and how you might want to influence the way in which your case is heard....

Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020
Teresa Hargreaves and Gareth Compton discuss two recent conflicting decisions as to whether a Claimant ought to be permitted covertly or overtly, to record their examinations by the Defendant's medical experts....

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020
This episode focuses on The Business and Planning Act 2020...

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020
Opportunities and challenges presented in undertaking virtual mediations and joint settlement meetings during the COVID pandemic....

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020
The Planning Podcast turns to infrastructure. Richard Kimblin QC interviews Angus Walker, Chair of the Board of the National Infrastructure Planning Association:...

Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020
In this episode we look at urgent/out of hours/without notice applications and injunctions within the Court of Protection....

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020
In this edition, Richard Kimblin QC meets Ian Kemp, a programme officer who is known to many of you, and Thea Osmund-Smith, planning and environmental barrister at No5....

Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020
Presenting the first vlog from the personal injury and clinical negligence groups at No5....

Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020
Hashi Mohamed and Tim Jones discuss the latest case on Neighbourhood Plans – what it means to be meet the ‘basic conditions’, designating local green spaces, and the difference between NPs and Local Plan processes....

Date: Fri, 29 May 2020
Covid-consequences for planning enforcement: investigation with social distancing, difficulties in issuing notices and commencing criminal proceedings, solutions for local authorities, and the timescales for appeals, particularly if evidence on oath is required...

Date: Tue, 26 May 2020
Mat Brunning and Lois Norris were joined by Daniel Herman to discuss and explore the main changes, and to look at how these may continue to shape the way we run our cases during, and after, lockdown....

Date: Thu, 21 May 2020
Listen to an interview with author Ramya Nagesh about her new book “A Practical Guide To The Law In Relation To Hate Crime”....

Date: Fri, 15 May 2020
This podcast considers Covid-consequences: timescales for planning litigation, social distancing for the courts...

Date: Tue, 12 May 2020
Join the No5 Court of Protection Team in their second podcast in this series during the Covid-19 emergency....

Date: Tue, 05 May 2020
Net Zero: what was the vision pre-covid and what are the Covid-consequences?...

Date: Fri, 01 May 2020
Join the No5 Court of Protection Team in their new podcast...

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020
This week we start to look at covid consequences. Not what is happening now, or for the end of this lockdown period which extends to the VE Day celebrations....

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020
In the second part of our inaugural podcast, the No5 Planning Team takes another look at topical issues from nitrates to planning for the future and case law updates....

Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020
Having had to postpone its Annual Planning Seminar until October due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the No5 Planning Team has taken to the airwaves to record No5’s inaugural podcast...

Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020