Conrad Rumney

Conrad Rumney practises principally in the fields of planning, local government law and public law.

He has substantial experience in relation to property litigation, in particular contractual issues. He has acted for many of the large developers (including, within the last year, Taylor Wimpey, David Wilson Homes, and Crest Nicholson). He also has particular experience in relation to land disputes concerning boundaries, rights of way and restrictive covenants.

He has dealt with claims involving the TUPE Regulations, employment status, health and safety dismissals, working time (including flexible working) and protected disclosures in Employment Tribunals throughout England and Wales and also in Scotland. In addition, he is particularly well-versed in all aspects of discrimination law and the complex multi-day Tribunal claims that this area of work usually entails.

He is regularly instructed in relation to planning matters, in particular matters concerning waste, minerals and gypsies.

He is regularly instructed in relation to local government law (both for and against local authorities).

In relation to public law he has acted mainly (but not only) for local authorities. In particular, he regularly acts for local probation bodies in judicial review cases (recently contested matters have concerned the rights of a murderer as to where he is to reside once released upon licence, and the rights of a self-harming terrorist offender in relation to requirements that he wears an electronic tag while released on licence).

In the early 1990s Conrad Rumney acted as the external examiner in planning for the Institute of Legal Executives. For the past few years he has acted as an external examiner on the exam board for the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice at Oxford Brookes University.