Melanie McIntosh

Called: 1993 (South Africa); 2002 (Lincolns Inn)
BA (Cape Town University), LLB (Honours)(Wits)

Practice Areas:-

Planning
Environmental
Property
Public
Rating
Local Government
Human Rights
Civil
Education
Family
Criminal Law (Attorney General’s Unified List Criminal Panel C).

Experience:

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL – INQUIRIES: Green Belt, Special Landscape, Conservation, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Urban and Town Centre, Inappropriate Use, Highways and Compulsory Purchase.

PLANNING ENFORCEMENT: Inappropriate agricultural diversification. Caravans.

PROSECUTIONS: All aspects.

HIGH COURT: Judicial Review, Appeals and Injunctions.

CIVIL: All aspects of civil litigation, chancery and commercial in County and High Court.

OTHER: Rating, Property, Local Government and Human Rights. Melanie has extensive experience of dealing with expert evidence. Melanie also advises on complex property and regulatory matters.

Reported cases and publications: R v Kiernan [2003] EWCA Crim 1052;
Fairness is the key: In Defence of the Cab-rank Rule and Independence of Barristers – The Times 05/09/00 and Editor: PEBA Handbook.

Memberships: Melanie is a member of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA), United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA), Administrative Bar Association (ALBA), Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), Criminal Bar Association (CBA) and the South Eastern Circuit (SEE).