Jim Ryan
Jim is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer, whose practice also includes compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way and the law of commons and town and village greens.
His early career was spent as an engineering technician in Local Government and then as an infrastructure designer in the housebuilding industry, before reading for a law degree at UWE Bristol and then training with Burges Salmon in Bristol.
On qualification in 2001, he joined Burges Salmon’s Planning Team and later spent four and a half years as sole legal counsel to M J Gleeson Group plc, before returning to private practice.
Jim is also a Board Trustee with Emmaus, Bristol, a charity helping people out of homelessness.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2001
Experience
- Acuity Law, Partner (2020 - Present)
- M J Gleeson Group plc, Sole Legal Counsel (2010 - 2014)
- Burges Salmon LLP, Trainee through to Senior Associate (1999 - 2010)
Membership
- Law Society
Qualifications
- PG Dip, Legal Practice (1999)
- LLB (Hons) (1998)
Education
- University of the West of England (1995/1999)
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Q&As
Local authority options for repeated heavy‑vehicle damage to a highway maintainable at public expense
Given the enquirer notes the highway is 'seldom used', the initial issue to examine is whether the route ought to remain a highway that is maintained at the cost of the public purse...
Local Government
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