Philip Martin is a lawyer/planner with 30 years of industry experience.  He is a full time Senior Member at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal (VCAT), mainly practising for many years in the Planning and Environment List.  Prior to VCAT, Philip was a partner at a national law firm and he has done various guest lecturing, publishing and tutoring in planning law.  Philip’s own arboriculture situation is a mixed bag, as he primarily lives in a Melbourne inner city suburb in a villa unit, but also spends time on a Gippsland farm.