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When did you qualify?
Jeremy qualified as a solicitor in 1988.
What is your specialist area of law? What types of cases do you deal with?
- Advice to officers and planning committees on policy development control and enforcement matters
- Draft and prepare documents and agreements, undertake advocacy on behalf of One Legal’s partner councils at appeals, hearings and inquiries
- Advice to officers and elected members of the partner councils on constitutional matters and issues relating to probity and conflicts of interest
Share a couple of professional triumphs/achievements. Have you had any cases reported locally/nationally? Won any awards for your legal work?
- Jeremy has been involved in several cases which have had national implications. A recent one for Tewkesbury Borough Council has been seen as leading to amendments to the government’s National Planning Policy Framework
- A recent local success has also been for Tewkesbury Borough Council. Jeremy assisted the council in having an appeal against the refusal of planning permission in the village of Twyning for a housing development dismissed. If the appeal had been allowed a much-loved local area of woodland would have been lost. The case attracted significant local interest
- Non-executive director and chair of WHA Healthcare Limited. WHA is a not-for-profit medical expenses insurance provider