Biography:

Hayley has over 20 years’ experience as an environmental and planning lawyer in Australia and the UK, including at Ashursts, A&O Shearman, Stephenson Harwood, Maddocks and the Environment Agency of England and Wales. She is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the High Court of Australia and the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Prior to joining LexisNexis Australia, Hayley was Special Counsel in the Public Law team at Maddocks, and before that was Head of Environment for the Practical Guidance product at LexisNexis UK where she was involved in launching, developing and maintaining the Environment module.

Hayley has experience advising on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious environmental and planning matters, including climate change and renewable energy, environmental due diligence, permitting and compliance, contaminated land, judicial review, compulsory acquisition, and waste. She also has recent experience advising on property, commercial and construction law during a secondment to the Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Housing in NSW.

Hayley was a Trustee and Council member of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) and editor of UKELA’s online journal ‘e-law’. She has co-authored an Environmental Law chapter published in a Commercial Property Law (CLP) textbook in the UK, and several articles on environment and planning law published in various journals, commissioned content and blogs, including the following commentary since joining LexisNexis Australia: Headlines from the Finance COP: UNFCCC Climate Change Conference COP29, Baku.

Contact

hayleyanne.tam@lexisnexis.com.au