Rt Hon Lord Justice Lindblom - Sir Keith Lindblom was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in November 2015. He became a High Court judge in October 2010. In January 2013 he was appointed President of the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), and in April 2014 the first Planning Liaison Judge – the lead judge of the then newly formed Planning Court. In April 2018 he was appointed Vice-President of the Unified Tribunals and President of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber).   He became a Patron of UKELA in July 2017, and in the same month he was made an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford.   At the Bar he practised mainly in the law relating to planning, the environment, local government, and compulsory purchase and compensation. He was a founding member, and is now an Honorary Member, of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association. As a High Court judge, he sat mostly in the Administrative Court and latterly the Planning Court. In the Court of Appeal he is the Supervising Lord Justice for Planning and Environmental law. Sir Keith is a UKELA Patron.

Eloise Scotford is Professor of Environmental Law in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. She is a leading scholar on the legal treatment of environmental principles (she is author of Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law (Hart 2017)), air quality law, climate change governance, waste law, and legislative and adjudicative processes as they relate to the environment. She is co-author of Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials (2nd ed, OUP 2019). She has advised Defra, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Environment Agency on matters of environmental law. She is a former Trustee of UKELA’s Council of Management and currently sits on UKELA’s Brexit Taskforce. In February 2019, she appeared before the Environmental Audit Committee to give evidence on the draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill 2018. She is an Associate Member of Landmark Chambers, a member of the Avosetta group of EU environmental law experts, and Analysis Editor the Journal of Environmental Law.

Stephen Tromans QC is generally recognised as the leading practitioner in environmental law in the UK. As long ago as 1991 when a partner at Simmons & Simmons, he was named as the “Lawyers’ Lawyer” for environmental work by “Lawyer” magazine. Since moving to the Bar in 1999 and taking silk in 2009 he has been consistently highly rated in environmental law, energy law and planning law, and has been both environmental Junior and Silk of the year in the Chambers Bar Awards. His work covers all aspects of environmental and natural resources law, both in its regulatory and commercial aspects, in cases such as judicial review, planning and other appeals, commercial disputes, arbitration, nuisance and other common law claims. It has a significant international and EU dimension. Stephen is known as the author of the leading texts on the subjects of contaminated land, environmental assessment, and nuclear law. He has a substantial practice in all forms of energy, water, waste, and major infrastructure generally. He is recognised by Chambers & Partners as one of the Chambers 100, a list of the top 100 silks across all practice areas.