Atlas Chambers

Ximena Montes Manzano (2004)

Ximena was called to the Bar in 2004 and joined Chambers in 2007 from 6 Pump Court Chambers. She successfully completed her pupillage in 2 Harcourt Buildings (now FTB).

Ximena accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers expertise and has a keen interest in public, planning and environmental law, administrative law, tax and revenue law, education law and local government law.

    

Practice Profile

Planning and Environment Law

Ximena advises local authorities, private clients and consultants on areas of planning enforcement, planning control, judicial review proceedings and statutory challenges. She has advised and appeared at enforcement inquiries and was junior to Keith Lindblom QC at a four-day housing inquiry in Portsmouth. She appeared on behalf of third party objectors to planning and hazardous substances applications for a multi-million pound gas storage facility within the Great Wolds Valley at a three-week inquiry at the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.  Ximena successfully appeared on behalf of the developer in an appeal against Calderdale Council's decision not to grant planning permission to a medium-sized residential scheme in an otherwise 'useless' greenfield site.

In addition, Ximena has prosecuted and defended both in the Magistrates' Court and the Crown Court in breach of planning enforcement matters and has appeared in the High Court in Judicial Review challenges (R (on the application of Barnet London Borough Council v The Parking Adjudicator [2007] RTR 14).

Tax and Revenue Law

Since joining Chambers, Ximena has taken a keen interest in tax law and has represented taxpayers in direct and indirect tax appeals in the Tax Tribunals as well as Judicial Review proceedings and appeals to the High Court.  She is a co-editor of the leading textbook Tiley & Collison's UK Tax Guide, a technical editor of CCH's Red and Green Books and an author in Taxation, Tax Adviser and  Personal Tax Planning Review journals.  In addition Ximena is a guest speaker and lecturer in tax discussion  groups and conferences organised for members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Education

Ximena has advised (in writing and in conference) private clients on breach of contract and negligence disputes in both further and higher education, in appeals to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Tribunal and in Judicial Review challenges with regards to social care provision.

Ximena also represents schools and parents at exclusion hearings in front of the Independent Appeals Panel.

Regulatory Crime

Ximena has successfully completed two terms of secondment in the criminal litigation teams of the London Borough of Enfield and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In her role as an in-house prosecutor she assisted in a variety of matters such as breach of planning and environmental enforcement, trading standards, street trading, and housing benefit fraud amongst others. She regularly represented both Councils in the Magistrates' Court and in the Crown Court.

She has also dealt with regulatory crime matters as part of her own planning, environmental and local government law practice.

General Civil Law

A part of Ximena's practice includes appearing in a number of civil trials and applications in front of District Judges, Circuit Judges and Masters in the County Court and Companies Court. Areas of civil litigation include debt collection, mortgage repossession, bankruptcy, insolvency, personal injury, road traffic, infant settlement hearings, boundary disputes, easements, rights of way and general landlord and tenant.

Qualifications and Memberships

Languages 

Fluent Spanish.    

Interests

Gym, cinema, theatre and dancing.

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Year of Call: 2004


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