Holly Law
Senior Paralegal
Overview
Holly joined Richard Buxton as a Paralegal in August 2022.
She graduated with a BA in Philosophy from King’s College London in 2019 and completed an MA in Law in 2022, from which she is due to graduate shortly. She specialised in Environmental Law during her MA, and has particular interests in environmental judicial review and the law around public participation in environmental matters.
Holly assists with cases across all areas of the firm’s work, including judicial review, planning matters, and private and statutory nuisance claims.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Philosophy, King’s College London
Memberships
- UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
- Member of UKELA Student Working Party
- Lawyers for Nature
Personal Interests
Outside of work, Holly can normally be found reading, writing music, singing to herself and volunteering in her local community.
Key Cases
Court orders full hearing of lynx re-introduction claim
R (Lynx UK Trust CIC) v Natural England
High Court will hear challenge to Natural England’s position on licence application
Successful challenge to Bedfordshire Traffic Regulation Order
Green Lane Association Ltd v Central Bedfordshire Council
Council’s decision to make Experimental Traffic Regulation Order quashed
Dartmoor ‘wild camping’ Appeal Intervention
Darwall & Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority
Open Spaces Society intervention in appeal to defend right to Dartmoor wild camping
Opposition to Cumbria Coal Mine: Redetermination
Called in Application: Underground Metallurgical Coal Mine, Whitehaven, Cumbria
Application withdrawn after representations submitted to Secretary of State on redetermination of Cumbria coal mine
Successful Challenge to Cumbria Coal Mine
South Lakes Action Against Climate Change v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities & West Cumbria Mining Ltd
High Court quashes planning permission for coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria
Experimental Traffic Regulation Order Quashed
Green Lane Association v Central Bedfordshire Council
Decision for unreasonable experimental traffic regulation quashed
Village Green Deregistration Appeal
R (Strack) v Sec. of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Challenge to village green deregistration/exchange; Costs cap conceded by Government
Challenge to industrial development in AONB
R (Moakes) v Canterbury City Council
Second claim against industrial incursion into Kent Downs proceeds to full hearing
Successful challenge to dwellings in listed building grounds
R (Kinnersley) v Maidstone Borough Council
Court of Appeal quashes planning permission for residential conversion in grounds of listed building
Challenge to New Road Across Common, Suffolk
R (Open Spaces Society) v Sec of State for Food, Environment & Rural Affairs
Challenge to new road across common clarifies rules on considering alternatives to “works” on common land
Planning Inquiry into 500-House Development, Wychavon
Land East of Bredon Road & Tewkesbury Road, Mitton
Parish Council successfully opposes planning appeals for 500 dwellings and school