Meet Our Experts
We’d like to introduce you to our video presenters and article writers. We have gathered together environmental specialists from within Landmark Information as well as Law Experts from across the legal sector to ensure you gain the best insight and knowledge around the key areas of environmental risk and sustainability.
Landmark Professional Services
As Law firms face growing environmental due diligence demands, developers navigate climate, biodiversity and infrastructure issues, and investment managers are making ESG and climate analysis central to portfolio decisions, it’s important to be guided by those who are not just specialist in their field but passionate about what they do and how they can educate lawyers in delivering the best advice for their clients.
Constance Alderson Blench
Head of Professional Services at Landmark Information Group. With over 12 years of experience in environmental consultancy, Connie joined Landmark as an environmental consultant in 2017, primarily conducting environmental audits and flood risk assessments. Over the past 6 years she has taken on leadership roles, and has been instrumental in the delivery of a number of key projects –…
Sally Redman
Sally is the Net Zero Lead at Landmark Information Group, driving the organisation’s decarbonisation strategy and helping clients define and deliver their net zero ambitions. She supports organisations in collecting and interpreting emissions data, translating it into credible near term and long-term targets aligned with climate commitments. With over a decade of experience in environmental risk management—now expanded to…
Sam Hackett
Samuel is a Senior Consultant at Landmark Information Group with 15 years’ worth of experience. He is currently Landmark’s Technical Lead for contaminated land and environmental auditing. A Chartered Environmentalist, he focuses on the technical delivery of environmental due diligence, helping clients navigate environmental risk in property transactions. Known for his pragmatic and commercially aware…
Dillon Fiolet
Dillon first joined Landmark in 2019 on a student placement as part of his MSc in GIS and Environmental Management. Following this, he progressed into an Environmental Consultant role, specialising in spatial data analysis. Since then, Dillon has played a pivotal role in bridging the consultancy team with Landmark’s wider data functions. He leads on…
George Hearn
Joined Argyll Environmental in 2021 following the completion of his undergraduate degree in BSc Environmental Sciences. During his time at the company George has embedded himself as a core member of the team providing an established opinion for contaminated land and flood risk reports. George has also branched out into the ESG reporting team, helping in…
Sam Warrior
Customer Success Consultant Sam joined Landmark Legal’s Customer Service team in 2017 with over 10 years of previous customer service experience. She has built up a wealth of knowledge on Landmark’s reports which she uses to answer customer inquiries and support her colleagues. Sam now spends the majority of her time with the Customer Success team, focusing on the Landmark Academy…
Landmark Presenters
Landmarks’ customer facing team are naturally used to presenting to our conveyancing clients being highly experienced in environmental risk for property transactions.
Simon Boyle
Simon has over 25 years’ experience as an environmental lawyer which has included working in local government and for a major manufacturing company. For 12 years he has run an MSc module on Environmental Policy and Law. He is the chapter author (Information Sources and Environmental Reports) of Contaminated Land by Stephen Tromans and a…
Philip Hill
Philip is a Channel Partner within the Legal division of Landmark, and joined in 2012. Prior to this, he has worked for Lloyds Bank, Portman Building Society and Merrill Lynch. Philip is one of our key speakers of our live webinars held by the Landmark Academy to provide information on our products and when best…
Allie Parsons
Customer Success Consultant – Landmark Information GroupAlison has over 27 years’ experience in marketing, consulting & advising various businesses, the last 12 years working with Law firms. She also has a broad experience in professional training and delivers seminars and training sessions for legal professionals on a range of property related issues.
External Professionals
Our external expert speakers come from various sectors of the property and sustainability professions. They provide specialist knowledge and practical guidance through their valuable experience and insight as leaders in their field.
Professor Robert Lee
Robert Lee is Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham. He has acted as specialist adviser to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the House of Commons and the National Assembly for Wales and has worked for the Department for the Environment in Northern Ireland (drafting environmental legislation), the Irish Environment Protection Agency, the UN Environment…
Phil Huddleston MRICS
MINING SURVEYOR AND FORMER HEAD OF MINING INFORMATION AT THE COAL AUTHORITY (TCA) Phil is a Chartered Mineral Surveyor with specialist knowledge of coal mining data and geographic information systems. He is a Director of PinPoint Coal Ltd. Phil began his career with the National Coal Board where he trained to become a mining surveyor…
Paul Nathanail
Paul Nathanail has been working in risk based land contamination management and sustainable reuse of brownfields since the 1990s. Over that time he has combined consultancy, research, teaching and service to the land contamination sector. Among other activities, he led the drafting of BS ISO 18504 on sustainable remediation, was the independent Suitably Qualified Person…
Angus Evers
Partner and Head of Environment at Shoosmiths LLP Angus is an experienced environmental lawyer whose practice covers all aspects of environmental law from contaminated land to waste, climate change, renewables, nuisance, water pollution and asbestos. He also has expertise in related areas such as energy and health and safety. He advises developers and operators of,…
Stephen Poole
Stephen advises landowners on capital and income taxes and helps with thinking about how to plan under the new agricultural payment landscape. He has spent many years in central technical offices of large firms, Mazars and PwC, and moved up to Newcastle in 2006 purely because Northumbria is a wonderful part of the country. Until…
Dr Kathryn Collins
Kathryn is a Senior Environmental Consultant with over 8 years’ experience within marine environmental research, industry and regulation. Her PhD in Environmental (Marine) Planning was completed in 2020 and explored offshore consenting with a focus on stakeholder consultation and the regulatory assessment decision-making process. Kathryn has previously worked for the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) where…
Maya Sainani
Maya is an aspiring environmental lawyer with a particular interest on biodiversity protection. She recently obtained a 1st class degree in Law from the University of Sussex and is presently working as a legal journalist for the Legal500 Green Guide, which focuses on highlighting law firms’ contribution to a green transition internationally. Currently, Maya is…
Stuart Tym
Stuart is a Planning Lawyer (Partner) at Knights. He has over 15 years experience of planning from both the private and public sector, with a particular expertise in enabling developments and enforcement work, as well as compulsory purchase, the negotiation of complex s.106 agreements, and judicial review. He acts for a wide variety of clients,…
Andrew Wiseman
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience in environmental and planning law. He is the author of the Law Society Environmental Law Handbook and a chapter author of the Law Society Conveyancing Handbook. He was formerly a partner and head of environmental law at an international law firm in the City of London. His practice encompasses…
Eleanor Baggs
Eleanor has been in legal practice for over 30 years, first as a real estate lawyer and more recently in compliance. She was the head of compliance for a well known regional law firm, dealing with compliance policies and procedures and client onboarding. She led its planning and implementation of GDPR, and is a registered…
Bob Pritchard
Bob is a Legal Director & specialist planning lawyer at Shoosmiths with over 25 years’ experience. He has also held senior positions in local government including the post of City Solicitor and Monitoring Officer at Leeds City Council. He specialises in large scale regeneration and infrastructure projects including the use of compulsory purchase (CPO) powers.