Local Government
Our Expertise
We provide a range of specialist services to all tiers of local government across London, the South and South West always fully recognising the importance of not only legal issues but also the law, procedural and financial controls affecting local authority projects.
Our ability to provide national expertise at highly competitive rates is evident from the number of repeat instructions from our long standing local authority clients, and the increasing number of new appointments in 2009 to advise local authority consortia as well as individual authorities.
As well as having specific Public and Constitutional Law expertise, we regularly advise and represent local authority clients on internal management issues and front line operational matters, including:
- Access to Information
- Administrative law, practice & procedure
- Childcare
- Company
- Construction
- Contracts
- Dispute Resolution
- Employment
- Housing & homelessness
- Outsourcing
- Planning and Environment
- PPP
- Procurement
- Property
- Regeneration
- Standards
- State Aid
- Statutory duties and powers
Practical Advice
The Local Government Team is supported by specialist lawyers in other teams including employment, commercial property, company commercial, family, information technology and communications, litigation, planning, projects and procurement. Our local government specialists include those who have worked as senior managers in local government. Their expertise is therefore complemented by a thorough understanding of the political and budgetary constraints of government bodies, thus ensuring that the advice provided on local government matters by Michelmores is practical as well as clear, prompt and accurate.
Training
As part of our Local Government's Group service we regularly provide training and legal updates to in-house lawyers. Training provided to our local government clients includes:
- Top Tips on Procurement (2008)
- Redevelopment and Regeneration (2008)
- Planning in an Uncertain World (2008)
- Employment Law update (2009)
- Charging and Trading (2009)
- Property Partnership Structures (2009)
- Managing Community Partnerships (2009)
- Gypsy and Traveller - Law and Policy (2009)
- Planning Update (2010)
- The New Remedies Directive (2010)
- Development Agreements (2010)
- Whistle-blowing (2010)
