Michael acted as junior counsel for a local planning authority at a two-week inquiry concerning an outline application for up to 2,800 residential units in tall buildings. Michael has also appeared on behalf of a local planning authority at an enforcement appeal that raised many issues, including enforcement time limits, the Habitats Directive and the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive. 

Michael has assisted at an inquiry in which permission was refused for redevelopment of a police station as a Burger King Drive-Thru. The main issues at the inquiry included design, living conditions, highways, and permitted development rights.  

Michael also assisted at a planning inquiry concerned with the correct interpretation and application of the flooding sequential test and a planning inquiry addressing issues of landscape and 5YHLS in the context of an emerging local plan. 

Michael has helped draft skeleton arguments for judicial review claims concerning supplementary planning documents, the interpretation of planning policy, and procedural fairness. Michael is currently instructed as junior counsel in a s.288 statutory review challenge and has also assisted in s.288 and s.289 challenges concerning the Green Belt, advertisement consent and procedural time limits. Michael has also written an Advice on how fallback positions should be considered by local planning authorities.

Michael has written draft Advices on confidentiality during planning inquiries, the legality of a planning condition concerning highways, the difference between a supplementary planning document and a development plan document, Certificates of Lawfulness in a Listed Buildings context and the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019. 

Michael helped draft an Order 53 Statement for a Northern Ireland judicial review claim in respect of consents to allow for the creation of underground gas caverns. The claim raises issues concerning the Habitats Regulations, the correct approach to assessing the environmental effects of decommissioning, and cross-cutting. 

Michael is currently instructed as sole counsel on behalf of a local authority to defend a prosecution brought under s82 EPA 1990. Michael has also drafted research notes on statutory nuisance and the correct approach to 'Best Practicable Means'. Michael has also written draft Advices and research notes on the precautionary principle, the application of the Habitats Regulations for permitted development, the approach taken towards decommissioning in DCOs and the prospects of success for a potential claim against the Environment Agency. 

Michael has written draft Advices and research notes on the precautionary principle, the application of the Habitats Regulations for permitted development, the approach taken towards decommissioning in DCOs and the prospects of success for a potential claim against the Environment Agency. 

Michael is a regular contributor to the FTB Environmental Law Blog. 

During the course of pupillage, Michael has attended local plan examination hearings, DCO Hearings, and conferences on compulsory acquisition strategy. Michael has also written draft pre-action letters concerning disclosure in judicial review claims.

Michael has been instructed for several review hearings and five summary review hearings of premises licences, including high-profile reviews receiving local media coverage. Michael has also successfully appeared on behalf of applicants for new premises licences.

Michael has also written an article with Jeremy Phillips KC on Sexual Entertainment Venues and the Public Sector Equality Duty. Michael has also written an article on the Principle of Regularity in the licensing context, which was published in the Journal of Licensing this year. 

• Bar Professional Training Course. Distinction
• GDL, Oxford Brookes University. Distinction
• MA History, The University of Chicago. 4.0 GPA
• MSt History, New College, University of Oxford. Distinction
• BA History, New College, University of Oxford. First in Finals and Distinction in First Year Examinations 

• Residential Scholarship, Gray's Inn
• Prince of Wales Scholarship, Gray's Inn
• Michael Beloff Essay Prize
• City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence
• Tatjana Finkelstein GDL Scholarship, Gray's Inn
• Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago
• Social Sciences Fellowship, University of Chicago
• New College Scholarship for performance in First Year Examinations 

• Semi-finalist in the Gray's Inn Moot Competition
• Winner Oxford Brookes University internal mooting competition judged by Richard Benson KC.
• Represented Oxford Brookes University university in the ESU-ECC National Mooting Competition.

• “The Principle of Regularity- some reflections”, Journal of Licensing
• “Sexual Entertainment Venues and the Public Sector Equality Duty” (with Jeremy Phillips KC), Journal of Licensing
• The Office for Environmental Protection: Strategy, Enforcement and early actions, FTB Environmental Law Blog 
• Nature Recovery Green Paper: Protected Sites and Species, FTB Environmental Law Blog
• R (Richards) v Environment Agency [2022] EWCA Civ 26: A Return to Normalcy, FTB Environmental Law Blog.
• Michael Beloff Essay: "Judicial Review Reform: The Government Response to the Independent Review of Administrative Law", Gray's Inn Student Law Journal

Membership

• Planning and Environment Bar Association 
• UK Environmental Law Association

• Non-fiction Reader at The Chicago Review, September 2018-June 2019
• English Teacher, Benedict School, Carpi, Italy, September 2017-July 2018
• HR Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, July-August 2015
• Research Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, July-August 2014

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