Senior Associate.

Tim Lloyd.

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Tim is a Senior Associate at Power & Associates.

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Recent work.

Preparing strategic information requests for records related to corporate lobbying activities that influence policy and regulatory approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation, South Africa’s energy mix, and the just transition to a low-carbon economy.

Leading litigation involving a constitutional claim against the South African government relating to the harmful levels of air pollution in the Highveld of South Africa.

Supporting litigation involving a constitutional claim against the South African government involving the development of new coal fired power stations in South Africa.

Tim's CV

Amplifying voices for change.

About Tim.

Overview.

Tim is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (with Right of Appearance) and a Senior Associate at Power & Associates. He holds an LL.B. degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and an LL.M. degree in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Tim specialises in environmental and sustainability law, constitutional and administrative law, public international and regional law, and social enterprise and CSO law. He has a particular interest in the convergence of digital rights, open data, and climate justice, the relationship between ecological sustainability and emergent technologies, and the development of ‘climate-resilience law’ in Africa. Tim is also a Senior Associate and Head of the Climate Justice & Sustainability practice at ALT Advisory (2023-).

Before joining Power & Associates, Tim practised as a senior attorney in the Pollution and Climate Change Programme at the Centre for Environmental Rights (2017-2022), with a primary focus on the regulation of air pollution and its impact on public health. Prior to that he clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2016-17, Justice Bess Nkabinde), and he was employed as a legal compliance advisor at Environmental Resources Management in South Africa and the United Kingdom (2014-16).

Tim has appeared in a variety of fora, including media interviews, conference panels, and guest lectures at local and international universities.

Tim is committed to exploring effective ways in which society can build climate-resilience through the provision of human rights and the application of just and regenerative practices.
Professional Affiliations.
Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, (with Right of Appearance) admitted on 12 May 2014.

Member of the Legal Practice Council (Membership Number: 35842).
Academic Qualifications.
LL.B. (University of the Witwatersrand).

LL.M. in Global Environment and Climate Change Law (University of Edinburgh).

Level 1 Field Guide (Field Guide Association of South Africa).
Judicial Clerkships.
Justice Bess Nkabinde at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2016-17).
Selected Cases / Legal Submissions.
Legislative and policy development

Written submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment advocating for the inclusion of climate-resilient development and the best interests of the child principle in the Climate Change Bill.

Co-authored a written submission, together with the Centre for Child Law, to the Presidential Climate Commission on South Africa’s Just Transition Framework advocating for the inclusion of the best interests of children.

Case involvements

Trustees for the Time Being of Groundwork Trust and Another vs Minister of Environmental Affairs and Others, unreported judgment of the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, Case No. 39724/19 (18 March 2022) – constitutional law, air quality law, right to an environment not harmful to health and wellbeing

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions South Africa and Another v Continental Outdoor Media (Pty) Ltd and Others [2014] ZAGPJHC 200 – constitutional law, freedom of expression, contract law, validity of by-laws
Recent Publications / Presentations.
Presented at the University of Bradford School of Law symposium on ‘Law and Climate Change: A Red-Hot Challenge’, (2021).

Tim Lloyd, ‘Eskom’s emissions are not compatible with the South African constitution’, (20 November 2020), Mail & Guardian Thought Leader.

Tim Lloyd and Vuyisile Ncube, ‘The interdependency between children’s best interests and the right to a healthy environment’, (2019), Case study 22 in the South African Child Gauge, Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town.

Co-Author, ‘The myth of clean coal’ technical report and fact sheet’, (2019), The Life After Coal Campaign.

Presented an air pollution case study at a conference on strategic legal mechanisms for delivering social and economic justice in Africa, hosted by the University of Nairobi and Oxfam International (2019).

Presented on the use of strategic litigation to achieve the right to breathe clean air at the annual Public Health Association of South Africa conference (2019).