Guy Linley-Adams is qualified both in England and in Scotland, specialising in the environment and conservation, water, fisheries and freedom of information law.
Guy has a First in Natural Sciences from Downing College, Cambridge, a Masters in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London and has worked for many environment and wildlife NGOs since 1989, including Friends of the Earth, as a consultant to WWF-UK and Wildlife and Countryside Link, and as Director of Conservation at the Marine Conservation Society.
He has considerable media experience as editor of the Good Beach Guide, writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth and presenter on BBC TV’s Country Tracks programmes.
Guy became a solicitor in 2003 and Head of Legal at the Anglers’ Conservation Association (now Fish Legal) from 2006 and is qualified in both England and Scotland.
He is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) Water Working Party and theEnvironmental Law Foundation (ELF).
"I am absolutely certain that the brilliant legal help from Guy Linley-Adams was the key that finally opened the lock" - Mike Horner, Ribble Fisheries Consultative Association, abstraction issue, September 2010
"He is a formidable operator with a reputation for taking no prisoners" - Trout and Salmon Magazine, Comment, October 2010
"..all credit to Guy Linley-Adams for exposing the shocking reality that the industry has sought to conceal..." - Trout and Salmon Magazine, Comment, May 2011
"I could not have done this with any other solicitor...the research would just not have been possible and I am eternally grateful...." - owner of private fishing rights, Scotland, February 2011
"May I say a big 'thank you' to you for all the hard work which you have done on my behalf" - owner of private fishing rights, access dispute, England, November 2010