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Sam Guy

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Public law lecturer at the University of York | ✝️ www.york.ac.uk/law/people/sam-guy Admin law, strategic litigation, planning

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Sam Guy @samjguy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I wrote here about the MoJ's response to Lord Banner KC's Written Q that the Planning Court's timescales haven't slipped. Lord Banner has asked another Q on this, and MoJ has confirmed its claim as to timescales was based not on statistical data but on speaking to the Planning Liaison Judge

Written Question by Conservative peer Lord Banner KC, as follows: 'To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Levitt on 26 February (HL14912), whether their answer was informed by statistical data relating to the duration taken to determine cases concerning challenges to planning permissions granted under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in 2025 and 2026; and if so, what patterns this data showed, (1) compared to the target timescales set out in the Practice Direction, and (2) compared to performance in previous years.'

The response of Baroness Levitt, under-secretary in the Ministry of Justice, to Lord Banner's latest question, as follows: 'The Written Answer of 26 February 2026 (HL14912) was informed, not by statistical data, but by the knowledge of the Planning Liaison Judge, based on his work as judge in charge managing claims in the Planning Court.'

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Sam Guy @samjguy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Government response to Nuclear Regulatory Review published today, incl. plans on JR: proposing to indemnify some JR'd nuclear projects, consult further on Aarhus costs rules reform & extend the NSIP JR reforms to (at least) some other planning JRs assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b3ea...

Screenshot of page 19 of the Government's response to the Nuclear Regulatory Review (link in post), which focuses on Judicial review reform

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Sam Guy @samjguy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I’m really pleased to be starting my new job today as a Lecturer in Law at the (rather snowy) University of York!

A snowy University of York campus, framed by an office window

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Sam Guy @samjguy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

1/3 What can we learn from HS2 about the role of judicial review in delivering infrastructure projects? I have a new *open access* article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies looking at the many JRs of HS2: doi.org/10.1093/ojls.... In it, I suggest the dominant political critique of JR may be

The first page of the article ‘Putting the Brakes on Infrastructure? Judicial Review Challenges to HS2 and the Critique of ‘Litigant Power’, published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

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