Dr Ashley Bowes is a barrister specialising in planning law at Cornerstone Barristers and is the General Editor of the Journal of Planning & Environmental Law. He is ranked as a leading practitioner in the field by Chambers & Partners, the Legal 500 and by the trade magazine, Planning. Ashley has experience of acting for developers and planning authorities at public inquiries, and has acted for both claimants and defendants at all stages of
planning litigation, including to the Supreme Court. He is also a member of the Attorney General's C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, in which capacity he represents the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in planning litigation concerning the UK Government.