Garon Anthony is a partner in the Litigation practice at Squire Patton Boggs. He specializes in commercial litigation and regulatory investigations, including obtaining urgent injunctive relief and judicial review proceedings for clients across all sectors. Garon is ranked as leading individual for litigation in both Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories.

Anna Dews is a solicitor in the public law team at Leigh Day. She specialises in judicial review claims with a focus on human rights issues and environmental protection. Anna is regularly instructed by local and national campaign groups as well as more established NGOs and she has experience of advising clients in relation to privacy, right to protest, climate change and discrimination. 

Stephen Hockman QC has specialised in all forms of regulatory law for approximately the last 30 years. He is a leader of exceptionally high standing who has a broad environmental, health and safety and planning practice encompassing judicial review, inquiries, arbitration, civil claims and criminal prosecution and defence work.  Stephen has a varied client base, including corporates and individuals, regulator and (alleged) polluter, and he is equally at home undertaking effective cross-examination as in sustained legal submission at any level of tribunal. His particular strength lies in the breadth and varied nature of his practice. He is able to draw on his extensive experience in his specialist areas of regulatory and health & safety law, civil and commercial law, and planning and environmental law to provide a unique service in complex and high profile litigation.  Stephen is recognised as one of the leading practitioners in the fields of Health and Safety Law and Energy and Natural Resources, where his experience includes appearing for TOTAL UK in the health and safety prosecution arising out of the Buncefield explosion.  His practice also encompasses in particular environmental law including making and resisting public law challenges to environmental decisions, appearing for claimants/defendants in environmental cases in the common law courts, for example nuisance, and prosecuting and defending in major pollution cases. Stephen’s practice incorporates too a significant element of local government work, and he has appeared for and advised local authorities in every part of the country on a regular basis, on issues such as town and country planning and internal governance.  Stephen is highly recommended by the leading UK legal directories in the areas of Environmental Law and Health & Safety Law. He was nominated for Real Estate, Environment and Planning Silk of the Year at the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2015 and for Silk of the Year in Environment/Planning at the 2014 Chambers UK Bar Awards. He is listed in the Who’s Who Legal UK 2019 list of leading barristers in environmental law. He is also named in the Best Lawyers in the UK (2019 edition) list for Environmental Law. Recently, he was awarded the title of “Most Influential Regulatory Law Specialist 2018 – UK” in Acquisition International’s 2018 Global Excellence programme. 

Zion Lights is a science communicator and author of The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting. She has an MSc in Science Communication from UWE and is a TEDx speaker. Zion is a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion UK and Editor of the XR UK newspaper The Hourglass. www.zionlights.co.uk