Many people might fume if a senior civil servant singled them out at a major conference filled with colleagues in their specialist area. Not Fred Logue, however, the seasoned solicitor with a strong history of taking on judicial review cases on environmental, climate, and planning matters.  The latter speciality came to the fore in recent years with a spike in cases through the courts challenging housing and infrastructure projects.  It was in this context that, in April 2023, then interim chairperson of An Bord Pleanála Oonagh Buckley made her comments at the Irish Planning Institute’s annual conference. As reported at…

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