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Our services
Our expert legal team offers solutions across a wide range of practice areas, from commercial to planning law, we provide tailored advice and effective representation to protect your interests. Explore our services below to see how we can assist you.
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Commercial
- Advice on procurement law and practice
- Consultancy agreements
- Professional services contracts including those associated with construction contracts
- Services contracts including insourcing and outsourcing of services
- Construction Contracts, including JCT, NEC and associated warranties
- ICT contracts and software licences
- Bond agreements and parent company guarantees
- Goods contracts
- Leisure contracts
- Waste contracts including purchasing fleet
- Reviewing supplier terms and conditions
- Apprenticeship agreements
- Hire purchase agreements
- Advice on the use of framework agreements including setting up your own framework or calling off from an existing framework
- Grant agreements including giving and receiving of grant money
- Collaboration agreements/shared services contracts
- BID (business improvement districts)
- Confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements
- Advice on contract procedure rules
- Advice on company law and governance including local authority owned trading companies
- Advice on subsidy control
- Regeneration – including major projects
- Advice on waste matters
Committees and Governance
- Providing legal implications on all committee reports
- Attendance at committees to provide legal advice and support
- Legal advice and support to the MO/DMO including legal advice on constitution, governance, member investigations and member interests
- Legal advice on elections
- Legal advice on corporate complaints and ombudsman complaints
- Advice on local government statutory powers and duties
Litigation
- Advice on environmental health and nuisance including enforcement and prosecutions
- Attendance at and advice to licensing (including committees and sub-committees)
- Anti-social behaviour injunction applications and breach hearings (excluding out of hours work)
- Criminal litigation including SJP (single justice procedure)
- Advice on and claims for housing possession
- Defending housing disrepair claims
- Drafting road closure orders
- Court applications in relation to authorised occupation of council land
- Court applications in relation to debt recovery
- Advice on general regulatory matters (including bylaws, burials and cremations etc.)
- Advice on council tax, business rates and benefits (including legal advice on legal challenges and appeals but excluding attendance at court for liability orders)
- Advice and attendance at court for matters relation to counter fraud
- Information management including advice on requests, exemptions, data sharing agreements and privacy notices
- RIPA advice/application to court for authorisation
- Advice on housing and homelessness including defending homelessness appeals
- Legal advice in relation to car parking, car parking orders/variations of orders (including statutory process for implementing orders) and enforcement
- Commercial property repossessions
- Advice on claims in the leasehold and property tribunals
- Judicial review
- Advice on employment matters including employment tribunals and TUPE
Planning
- Advice on planning including planning development management and planning enforcement
- Legal advice on building control
- Planning judicial review/challenges
- Planning obligations (s106 agreements/undertakings)
- Planning policy (local plans/supplementary planning documents)
- Community infrastructure levy
- Attendance and advice to planning/development control committee
- Advice and attendance at planning appeals
- Legal advice on Town and Country Planning Act 1990 footpath diversion orders
Property
- Title enquiries including report on title, disputes, schedule of dilapidations (freehold/leasehold)
- Detailed reports on title for the purpose of regeneration
- Voluntary registration project, Land Registry applications
- Leases (with or without L&T exclusion notices)
- Residential leases including leasehold extensions and renewals, Section 40 notices and Section 20 advice
- Tenancies at will
- Licence to occupy
- S146 notices given or received (forfeiture)
- Notices including Section 25 and 26/termination/surrender post sale enquiry/break notices
- Acquisition of freehold/leasehold including POS, commercial and residential property and buy backs/compulsory purchase orders (unless part of a major redevelopment scheme)
- Sales (including at auction and with overage conditions) of freehold/leasehold property
- Easements/rights/licenses over land (including fairs and markets)/wayleaves
- Licences to assign/underlease, licence for works, licence for alterations, deeds of variation, deed of covenants, restrictions
- Restriction/notice against council or third party property
- Right to buy disposals
- Shared ownership disposals
- Deeds of postponement (including postponements for an ‘approved purpose’ under RTB sales)
- RTB certificates for discount/repayment
- RTB rights of pre-emption
- Disposal of surplus councils assets including options. Overages and uplifts
- Discharge mortgages
- Post LSVT enquiries
- Release of restrictive covenants
- Allotments
- Cemeteries/crematorium/burials
- Agriculture, grazing licences, farm business tenancies
- Advice not related to specific transaction including loans and grants
- Assets of community value
- General transactional enquiries relating to the council’s land and property portfolio
- Trust and charities advice
- Registration of disabled facilities grants