Victoria Hutton specialises in planning and environmental law at 39 Essex Chambers. She was shortlisted as planning and environment junior barrister of the year by Chambers and Partners (2021 and 2025) and Legal 500 (2025) and was included in the Planner’s Women of Influence list for 2020. Victoria is PEBA Equality and Diversity Officer and co-author of Planning Policy (Bloomsbury (2018), with Richard Harwood KC).
There is much to celebrate about the planning appeals process but it can, on occasions, test professional conduct. Tom Cosgrove KC, Claire Searson, Victoria Hutton and Paul Tucker KC explain how the Planning and Environment Bar Association and the Planning Inspectorate are working together to promote good conduct and tackle poor behaviour post-Harman
Update from the Chair of the Bar
AlphaBiolabs has been awarded the contract to provide drug, alcohol, and DNA testing services for Hull City Council, following a rigorous competitive tender process
By Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group
Modernising communication and collaboration at a leading Chancery set. A Zexi case study
How to build profile without compromising professional duties. By Naumaan Farooq, Co-Founder of Inked PR
Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, examines the role of cut-off levels, and the wider range of factors that must be considered when interpreting results for family court proceedings
A decade of reviews and research has disrupted accepted thinking in the search for causality. Suicides following abuse have overtaken domestic homicides. Is the law keeping up? Professor Susan Edwards KC (Hon) examines recent cases and the obstacles to successful prosecution
At least not that way, says Richard Paige
The case against judge-only justice – and why efficiency is not enough. By Professor Leslie Thomas KC
Heritage as an anchor and a compass, finding our common humanity and embracing the power of the outsider – Melina Antoniadis’s lessons learnt
Lauren Fullerton examines the how, what and why of setting up a second chambers base
