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Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage

39 Essex Chambers

Art, heritage and the odd bit of law. Richard Harwood KC, barrister of 39 Essex Chambers and Clarissa Levi, Art & Heritage Counsel at Wedlake Bell LLP discuss challenges and successes in the heritage and art world with guests from across the sector. For professionals, owners and the general listener, Clarissa and Richard ask: what is going on? what can be done? what are the stories behind the buildings, treasures and the cases?

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All Episodes

27:46

The Importance of Recent Buildings

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/12/10

Heritage, and architectural and artistic interest in particular, does not need to be old. Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi talk to Catherine Croft, the Director of the Twentieth Century Society, about some of the masterpieces of the last 40 years. Ranging from Southwark tube station on the Jubilee Line, Number One Poultry, to Dame Elisabeth Frink’s Desert Quartet and Peter Barber’s social housing, they ask how we assess and recognise recent architecture. They also ask: do architects like their work

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25:35

Art and Listed Buildings

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/11/26

What has art to do with listed buildings? When can a painting or sculpture be a listed building or part of a listed building? How can listed building consent be obtained?Richard and Clarissa talk about Lucian Freud, the Dill case, the Time & Life building, chandeliers and stuffed birds.Check out companion episode 20 Art and Land with David Sawtell discusses related property issues. The Contested Heritage – Removing Art from Land and Historic Buildings book is authored by Richard Harwood, David

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38:28

Paying Tax with Art

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/10/29

What is Acceptance in Lieu of tax, and how does the AiL Scheme operate? Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi are joined by AiL Panel Chair Michael Clarke, and Arts Council England Director of Cultural Property Sarah Posey. We discuss the benefits and hurdles of AiL, how it works best, and we dispel a misconception or two about the Scheme.

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39:38

World Heritage Sites

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/10/08

Are there really 1248 sites with outstanding universal value? How does the World Heritage Convention work in practice? Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi talk to Alexandra Warr, Head of International Strategy at Historic England about world heritage sites, international negotiations, development and Stonehenge.

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22:27

Funding our Heritage

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/09/24

What do we value from our past, and how do we fund it? We discuss the impact of lottery funding on the UK’s heritage landscape, the additionality principle, and if we should celebrate a John Major Day. Insights from the heart of the heritage world with Dame Liz Forgan.

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42:18

Export of Works of Art

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/09/17

Pippa Shirley joins Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi to discuss the UK’s export controls for cultural objects.How does the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art operate? Who was Viscount Waverley, and are the 1952 Waverley Criteria still fit for purpose? We talk about how export stops work, how to ensure the process is fair, and why outstanding ugliness is aesthetically important too.

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29:58

The Heritage Industry - Heaven or Hell?

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/09/03

How heritage consultants help, retro-fitting and the three characteristics of Gothic architecture. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi chat to Dr Emma Wells, Director of Heritage at Heritage Potential about big issues in heritage advice and competitive cathedral building.Emma’s latest book Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals is now out in paperback.

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38:31

Tax in Historic Houses

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/08/27

How does tax policy shape our heritage?39 Essex Chambers barristers Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi of Wedlake Bell are joined by Sarah Roller of Historic Houses to discuss the economic benefit of country houses, how they operate as businesses and what our tax policy seeks to achieve. Why and how can heritage property be exempted from tax, and what effect does this have? We discuss what qualifies for exemption, what doesn’t, and the tax changes on the horizon.

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23:35

Heritage Foundations

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/08/20

39 Essex Chambers barristers Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi of Wedlake Bell talk to Lucy Brown, Chief Executive of the Hugo Burge Foundation, about setting up an arts foundation. We explore how the founder’s vision became a reality, and the gifts of bringing artists and makers together.

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32:26

The Huguenot Museum

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/08/13

What brought a wealth of French artists and craftsmen to London in the 16th and 17th centuries? Tessa Murdoch, Chair of Trustees of the Huguenot Museum, joins Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi to discuss refugees, The French Hospital, the importance of hand skills in a world of AI, and imaginative ways to support the development of a museum.

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22:54

Heritage Uncovered

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/08/06

To live in historic homes we must keep them modernised. This needn’t mean a loss - updating a home for modern living can reveal and celebrate its heritage. Also… we need bathrooms! Clarissa Levi and Richard Harwood talk to Henry Berkeley of Spetchley Park Estate.https://www.spetchleyparkestate.co.uk/

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28:34

Curating Portraits

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/07/30

What does a Chief Curator do, and what goes on behind the scenes at an art gallery?Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi are joined by Imogen Gibbon of National Galleries of Scotland to discuss making art work for everyone, whether it's on display or not; with detours via Scottish fisheries, silver bands, curling and the dangers of dressing neatly.

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29:44

What do historic buildings and art mean to the...

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/07/16

We often talk of the historic interest in buildings, but what does that mean to the historian? How does art help understand our past? Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi from BHL Art Group talk to Dr Elizabeth Norton, a historian specialising in the Queens of England and the Tudor period, and the author of a number of highly readable books, including ‘The Lives of Tudor Women’ and ‘The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor’. We discuss walking the ground, Jane Seymour’s necklaces, what television dramas

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33:40

The Art of Mediation

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/07/10

It’s good to talk. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi chat with barrister and mediator Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho of 39 Essex Chambers about how mediation works, and its role in commercial and institutional art disputes. From private disputes to the repatriation of human remains, they look at the role of a third person to facilitate the resolution of disputes. Kelly is the chair of the Civil Mediation Council. The CMC promotes mediation, and holds a register of mediators. It is the recognised

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32:16

The Economic of Heritage

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/07/02

How is the viability of a heritage project considered? When do the numbers stack up?Richard and Clarissa talk to David Tomback OBE FRICS, the Development Economics Director of Historic England about optimum viable use, enabling development and climate change. As well as Modern Movement houses, restaurants and wedding venues …

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31:40

The Real Tennis Episode

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/06/26

Gripped by the nation's annual tennis fever, Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi turn to heritage tennis with Robert Dolman. Robert explains Real Tennis from the recreation of monks to the sport of Kings, and describes the important cultural and built heritage left to us by this historic game. The podcast team plays to the gallery.

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22:15

Barts Heritage

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/06/18

The restoration of the Great Hall and Hogarth Staircase at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City of London is one of the most exciting conservation projects presently underway. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi talk to Will Palin, Chief Executive Officer of Barts Heritage, about the project, the health benefits of heritage and a mediation which resolved a planning judicial review.More information about the project, tours of the works and the new book, St Bartholomew’s Hospital 900 Years, are

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49:29

The Value of Art

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/06/11

How do we value a work of art? What makes one object sell for millions when a similar object doesn't sell at all? And is that really what those objects are worth? Richard and Clarissa chat with art expert Frances Christie about the alchemy of art valuation and the merits of applying duct tape to a banana.

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36:35

Art and Land

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/06/04

When is an artwork part of a building or land? Or can you just take the statue with you when you sell up? Dr David Sawtell, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers, talks to Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi from BHL Art Group about Henry Moore sculpture in London’s East End, statues of Greek athletes, tapestries and heirs behaving badly.David is the co-author with Richard Harwood and Catherine Dobson of ‘Contested Heritage’ and of books on theLandlord and Tenant Act 1954and theTechnology and Construction

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35:54

By the Seaside

Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage ·

2025/05/28

Funfairs, rollercoasters and ’99 ice creams. Richard and Clarissa talk to leading planning consultant Nick Laister of Laister Planning, about the ups and downs of seaside amusement parks, including the rescue of Margate’s Dreamland. They also chat about Nick’s own visitor attraction, the very special Fairytale Farm.

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