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. Read more about the Andrew Lees Trust.
Andrew Lees Prize Article Competition 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are running this competition with a prize of a Speakers’ Corner slot at our Annual Conference. The article question is:
“Anthropocentric notions of the value of nature at the heart of environmental law have failed to stem biodiversity loss”
Entries must be submitted by midday on 26 April, in Word format and accompanied by a completed competition form. For full details please refer to the competition rules. Good luck!
Andrews Lees Prize Article Competition 2020
The competition did not run in 2020. We will let you know as soon as possible about the 2021 competition.
2019 Winner
The winner of the Andrew Lees essay prize 2019 was Ryan Ross. Ryan is a History graduate (MA, MSc) from the University of Glasgow. He worked in academia for several years, obtaining a PhD in History, before undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Law and then Bar Professional Training Course. He is currently employed as a paralegal with a major public inquiry, and will commence pupillage with Old Square Chambers in October 2019. Congratulations Ryan! And thank you once again to our brilliant judges Bob Lee and Donald McGillivray, as well as all the other entrants for their hard work.
