Sahil Kher

Recent Work

• Advising a party on potential breaches of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and transparency policies by the NHS in the context of two high-value contracts
• Representing the successful claimant in judicial review proceedings in relation to the Government’s Net Zero Strategy and in a further set of ongoing proceedings in relation to its Carbon Budget Delivery Plan
• Representing a claimant in a test case in relation to the s19 Environment Act duty on decision-makers to have “due regard” to environmental principles when making decisions
• Acting for a conservation charity and two impacted individuals in a challenge to the Government’s Sewage Discharge Overflow Reduction Plan and securing substantial pre-hearing concessions from DEFRA
• Advising a consortium on an intervention in Court of Appeal proceedings concerning the regulation of water companies under the Water Industry Act 1991
• Advising a community group on negotiations with a water company to secure improvements on the River Dart
• Advising advocacy groups on information rights issues and on their organisational status.
• Assisting and briefing MPs at committee stage on the implications of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (now Act)
• Acting for a core participant in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
• Acting for a bus operator in a challenge to a franchising scheme introduced by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
• Assisting the in-house team of a bank (on secondment) on an Independent Review into issues arising out of a migration to a new IT platform
• Acting for the Public Law Project, Liberty and Child Poverty Action Group in Supreme Court proceedings dealing with the power of public bodies, including the FTT, to disapply regulations that are incompatible with human rights legislation.

Professional Societies & Memberships

• Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
• The Law Society
• The Bar Council of India
• The Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa (India)

Further information

Outside work, Sahil sits on the Board of Middlesex Cricket, captains the England and Wales Solicitors Cricket Club and Acton Cricket Club, and is an advisor on environmental law issues to a community group based in Devon.