Estelle Dehon, KC, Cornerstone Barristers
Estelle Dehon KC is a public law barrister at Cornerstone Barristers, with a broad practice encompassing environment and planning, data protection and human rights. She is recognised as a leading barrister specialising in climate change matters and in advising on how development can comply with net-zero carbon requirements. This year she will appear in the Supreme Court in the first case concerning downstream greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel development; in the legal challenge to the internationally controversial new coal mine in Cumbria and in a challenge by an NGO to new oil and gas licensing. She is also advising a number of local authorities on how to address climate change in their planning policies, including policies addressing embodied carbon. She was included in the 2022 ENDS Report’s inaugural Power List of the most influential environmental professionals in the UK and she won a Global Climate Leadership award at COP27.
