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Michael Hearn

Head of Regulatory, Planning/Environmental & Civil Clerking

Daniel Jenkins

Senior Practice Manager – Regulatory, Planning/Environmental & Civil

Danny Lamb

Practice Manager – Regulatory, Planning/Environmental & Civil

Regulatory Law barristers at Six Pump Court are widely recognised by the legal directories, which list them as leading experts in nine broad practice areas, including consumer law, environment, health & safety and planning. For a full list of the more than twenty recognised individuals and links to their profiles, click here.

Six Pump Court also boasts seventeen members on the Regulatory List of Counsel used by the Health & Safety Executive, the Office of Rail Regulation and the Environment Agency – more than any other chambers.

At the 2021 Chambers UK Bar Awards Six Pump Court Chambers was shortlisted for Health & Safety Set of the Year and was awarded Health & Safety Set of the Year in 2018, having also won it previously in 2013. In 2015, Mark Watson was awarded Health & Safety Junior of the Year.

Regulatory Law barristers at Six Pump Court act for businesses, individuals, regulators, local authorities and other statutory bodies in the full range of regulatory and related work. Between them they handle several hundred regulatory cases each year and they can offer expertise and experience in every field from the most serious cases to the more modest and at a range of fee levels.

Counsels’ understanding of regulatory issues often requires the application of both public and private law (criminal or civil). It may require concurrent proceedings in a variety of tribunals, including the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Many of the cases undertaken by our regulatory law barristers involve prosecutions in the criminal courts. Because they can handle any aspect of the work which regulatory cases generate, they are often brought in when particular difficulties are likely to arise on issues like forfeiture of the proceeds of crime and disclosure, data protection and freedom of information.

In addition, members of Six Pump Court act in relation to enforcement notices of all types.

We also pursue points of regulatory law in civil damages claims and by way of judicial review (click here for details of our Administrative and Public law work).

Six Pump Court offers strategic advice to enforcement authorities who wish to ensure that proposed enforcement action it is proportionate and, so far as possible, unsusceptible to technical challenge or who wish to ensure that their policies and procedures generally are compliant with the law.

Six Pump Court also offers strategic advice to those facing regulatory action who wish to handle it and any further similar action in an efficient and non-disruptive manner or who wish generally to ensure that their procedures are compliant with the law.

If you are a business or individual wanting to know more about public access direct to members of Six Pump Court, click here.

If you are a professional (other than a lawyer) wanting to know more about licensed access on behalf of your client direct by you to members of Six Pump Court, click here.

Click on the subspecialties on the left side of the page for further information in these areas.

"The ‘phenomenal set’ at Six Pump Court exudes ‘charm, discretion, and confidence’ whilst representing clients involved in health and safety matters, aiding with food and environmental issues. "
― Legal 500 [2022]

"Six Pump Court is a 'very helpful and efficient' set with a broad spectrum of cases across the consumer law field. The 'really smart barristers' are particularly sought after for their 'prominence in health and safety' and food law, and their 'in-depth knowledge' of the corresponding regulation. "
― Legal 500 [2022]

“The best regulatory set in the country, without a doubt!”
― Legal 500 [2022]

“Six Pump Court is ‘a very strong health and safety set doing a combination of both prosecution and defence work’. The chambers has ‘strength in depth’ and ‘a wide skill set across the regulatory field’ where individual members have specific expertise in matters such as health and safety, environment and inquiries”.
― Chambers UK Bar Guide [2019]

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Legal Experts to Unpack Water Sector Reform Following Independent Water Commission’s Final Report

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11th November 2024

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13th December 2023

Major retailer fined in rat infestation case – Noémi Byrd and Doug Scott represented Somerset Council

CDS (Superstores International) Ltd, owners of The Range chain of home and garden stores, was fined £960,000 reduced to £640,000 for an early guilty...

25th May 2023

‘Back to the future’ The proposed approach to legal regulation of Artificial Intelligence in the UK

Gordon Menzies considers the recently published government white paper ‘A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation’ and its implications for regulation of AI in the UK.

24th May 2023

Appeal against closure of care home dismissed due to potential exposure of residents to ongoing risk of serious harm

James Harrison represented the Care Quality Commission before the First Tier Tribunal (Care Standards Chamber) in a ten-day appeal against the cancellation of the registration of a provider under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

19th May 2023

Directors jailed after five deaths and offenders ordered to pay more than £2 million

Pascal Bates led for the prosecution after a falling wall in a Birmingham scrapyard killed five workers, badly injured a sixth and could have killed another three.

24th April 2023

When is honey ‘raw’ honey?

Stuart Jessop has represented the London Borough of Waltham Forest before the First Tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) in an appeal against the service of an improvement notice under the Food Information Regulations 2014.

20th April 2023

Stuart Jessop prosecutes in railway health and safety case

Amey Rail Limited (ARL) has been fined £533,000 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which followed an investigation and prosecution by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

31st March 2023

Festival licence appeal refused after police concerns raised

An application for a licence to cover a annually recurring four-day music festival at Great Lines Heritage Park, Kent has been refused after Kent Police raised concerns over traffic management plans and the effects on crime and disorder.

31st March 2023

Permission to appeal to Supreme Court in local authority illegal money lending prosecution refused

The Court of Appeal has refused to grant a a certificate of general public interest and leave to appeal to the Supreme Court in the authority to prosecute case City of York/ Birmingham City Council.

29th March 2023

Health and safety update – recent legal developments by Amy Taylor

In this Health and Safety Update, Amy Taylor discusses recent health and safety cases, the most expensive health and safety fines of 2022 and the past and future strategy of the HSE.

29th March 2023

Tate Modern development and the law of nuisance – Gordon Wignall discusses an important case

Gordon Wignall discusses an important and controversial re-statement of the law of nuisance from the Supreme Court

10th March 2023

Three members of Six Pump Court appear in one of The Lawyer’s Top 10 Appeals of 2023

At this week’s ground-breaking sitting of the Supreme Court in Manchester, three members of Six Pump Court Chambers appeared in the first case to be listed. The case raises topical issues of fundamental importance in relation to the operation of the sewerage system in England and Wales and the liability of undertakers for polluting discharges.

23rd February 2023