Andrew Lees Prize

UKELA organises an annual article competition, the winner of which is awarded the 'Andrew Lees Prize'. The winner of the 2010 competition was Thomas Cleaver, a pupil barrister at Blackstone Chambers. For the first time in 2010 the competition was judged by article and presentation with Q&A. The question was: "The UK's care of the environment has been more hindered than enhanced by European Law?" The winner secured a free place at UKELA's annual conference at Exeter University in June. The finalists were Elspeth Wrigley of 1 Crown Office Row; Oliver Newman of BPP and Matthew Hunt of Holman Fenwick Willan. The winning article will appear here shortly.
Photo: Tom Cleaver shakes hands with Prof Mark Poustie, one of the judges, with the other judge, Richard Kimblin, to his left. Claire Collis, UKELA's student adviser is on the far left.

About Andrew Lees

Andrew Lees was the Campaigns Director for Friends of the Earth and a leading environmental campaigner on a range of issues from water pollution to illegal waste dumping. He died suddenly in 1994 while on a working holiday in Madagascar campaigning against a large opencast mine.

2009 Winning essay by Melanie Strickland (Adobe Acrobat)

2009 runner up essay by Matthew Hunt (Adobe Acrobat)

Winning article 2008 by Sarah Merritt (Adobe Acrobat)

The Andrew Lees Trust develops and implements social and environmental education projects