Dane Luo is the first Oxford student to win the Landmark Chambers Judicial Review Moot

Many congratulations to Dane on this achievement. He describes the experience below:

"The Landmark Chambers Judicial Review Moot consists of four rounds involving a judicial review or statutory appeal proceeding on a matter of administrative and planning law. This year, 35 universities across the United Kingdom participated. In the first round before barrister Barney McCay, the University of Oxford competed against the University of Glasgow on a moot about a common law duty to give reasons. Oxford scored in the top 8 teams to proceed to the quarter finals.

In the quarter finals before barrister Stephen Morgan, Oxford defeated the University of Nottingham on a moot about whether a planning condition on proposed development served a planning purpose and was related to the development. In the semi finals before barrister David Blundell KC, Oxford prevailed against the Inns of Court College of Advocacy on a moot about whether a Planning Inspector had correctly applied a national planning policy and lawfully considered alternative sites for proposed development.

In the grand final, Oxford competed against City, University of London before The Rt Hon Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill CVO PC, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and David Elvin KC in the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The moot concerned whether there it was lawful for the environmental impact assessment process for a development involving the extraction of fossil fuels for commercial purposes to not include an assessment of greenhouse gases produced by the use by the end consumer of the fossil fuels. This is based on the current appeal of R (Finch) v Surrey County Council & Ors in the Supreme Court where judgment is presently reserved.

I thank academics Professor Liz Fisher, Dr Joanna Bell and Sonam Gordhan for supporting us with holding practice moots."