Ned Helme

Date of call: 2006

Ned joined Chambers in 2009 upon completion of his pupillage. He accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work.

Ned undertakes a wide range of advisory and drafting work, and has appeared in various County Courts, Magistrates’ Courts and tribunals.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Public Law and Local Government Law
Ned has Public Law experience in a number of areas including planning, local government, immigration, education, freedom of information, community care and human rights. Ned recently advised pro bono on an application for permission to apply for judicial review of a decision of the Housing Ombudsman Service. Ned’s experience of local government work has been supplemented by a part-time secondment to a local authority, where he advises in-house on a wide range of matters including planning enforcement, licensing, and health and safety.

Planning and Environmental Law
During pupillage, Ned gained wide experience of planning inquiries and High Court challenges to planning decisions. He has acted as junior to Paul Stinchcombe on behalf of the Rule 6 parties at a four week planning inquiry into a proposed major new settlement at Dunsfold Park in Surrey. The proposal was characterised by its promoters as an ‘eco-village’ and the Inquiry was the first in the UK to consider the (then draft) Planning Policy Statement on Eco-Towns. Ned has also acted, again as junior to Paul Stinchcombe, on behalf of the Rule 6 party in a four week planning inquiry into a proposed Strategic Rail Freight Interchange at Radlett in Hertfordshire.

Employment Law
Ned has appeared for both Claimants and Respondents in Employment Tribunals in cases concerning unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, breach of contract, unlawful deductions from wages, and discrimination.

Other areas
Ned has a wide-ranging civil practice, including Fast Track and Small Claims Track trials, possession proceedings, winding up petitions, licensing appeals and a Dangerous Dogs Act prosecution. Ned has experience in education law, including clerking Independent School Admission Appeal Panels. As pupil to Paul Marshall, Ned gained experience in a range of areas of commercial law, particularly relating to the sale and supply of goods and services.

PRO BONO
Between 2006 and 2008 Ned worked as a caseworker at the Bar Pro Bono Unit. Ned retains a keen interest in pro bono work and is a member of the Bar Pro Bono Unit’s panel of volunteers and an accredited Free Representation Unit representative.

EDUCATION
2006 Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course
2005 City University, Graduate Diploma in Law
2003 University of Oxford, Magdalen College, BA in Biological Sciences, First Class

PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2005 Lincoln’s Inn, Lord Mansfield Scholarship
2004 Lincoln’s Inn, Lord Bowen Scholarship and Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship
2003 University of Oxford, Gibbs Prize in Biological Sciences

AFFILIATIONS
South Eastern Circuit
Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association

CLERKS EMAIL
Daniel Perry & Anthony King