Estelle Dehon

Lawyer, Cornerstone Barristers


Estelle has considerable experience as a court and tribunal advocate, as well as representing parties at major planning inquiries. She appeared for Friends of the Earth in the six-week Lancashire fracking inquiry and is representing a well-known activist in the subsequent Court of Appeal fracking challenge. Estelle also has expertise in other areas of energy law, including solar and wind energy. In addition, Estelle appears regularly in judicial reviews and statutory appeals and successfully represented the SSCLG in the Court of Appeal in one of the leading planning enforcement cases: Miaris.

The other main area of Estelle's practice is data protection and access to information. She advises a wide range of clients, both in the public and private sector, in relation to data protection and access to information matters. She has particular interest and expertise in data protection, big data, profiling, artificial intelligence and machine learning, on which she has been providing training to the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing. Estelle also undertakes advocacy work in this area and has experience bringing and defending data breach compensation claims in the County and High Courts. She also recently represented the investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi before the Tribunal in her FOIA challenge concerning information relating to the extradition of Julian Assange.