Associate Director – CPT.

TIM LLOYD.

Tim is an Associate Director at Power & Associates.

+2710 822 7860

Recent work.

Research and advisory services to establish community ownership models for renewable energy projects in South Africa.

High Court appearance in the matter of South African Human Rights Commission v Lagardien (2023/2391).

Legal opinion preparation addressing the intersection between datacentres, environmental impacts, and tariff exemptions.

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 member of the Legal Practice Council. 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 is an Associate Director, specialising in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, public international law, climate change law, environmental law, energy law, social enterprise and CSO law, and environmental and social governance systems. He has a particular interest in digital rights, open data, and climate justice, the relationship between ecological sustainability and emergent technologies, and the meaning of climate-resilience in Africa. Tim is also an Associate Director and the Head of the Climate Justice & Sustainability practice at ALT Advisory (2023-).

Before joining Power Law Africa, 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.

He 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).

Impact Investing in Africa – Certification Course (Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town).

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

South African Human Rights Commission v Lagardien (2023/2391) –constitutional & administrative Law, dispute resolution & accountability mechanisms, equality, inclusion & child Law, strategic & test Case Litigation

African Climate Alliance and Others v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others (56907/2021) [2024] ZAGPPHC 1271 (4 December 2024) –constitutional & administrative law, electricity planning, right to an environment not harmful to health and wellbeing, inclusion & child law.

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.
Contributor and advisor for a Fair Finance Coalition Southern Africa publication exploring the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s critical role in fostering sustainable development through Local Community Trusts under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (2024-5).

Tim Lloyd, ‘The Just Energy Transition in South Africa: Approaches to accessing information and knowledge for transition-affected communities – Advocacy Pathways’ (2024).

Tim Lloyd, ‘The Just Energy Transition in South Africa: Approaches to accessing information and knowledge for transition-affected communities – Best Practices’ (2024).

Presented at a global climate change litigation workshop hosted by the Southampton Law School on ‘Establishing the Right to Climate-Resilient Development in Africa’ (2023).

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.

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).