local government law
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local government law
-Please contact us by e-mail, telephone or by Fax for more details
of the products and services described in this web site.
Bevan brittan is firmly established as a fast expanding, national law firm who have specialists in local government law and are able to offer legal services to clients across both the public and private sector. Here at Bevan Brittan we have ninety two partners, over seven hundred and fifty staff and an annual turnover of over thirty seven million pounds. Bevan brittan is nationally renowned for our expertise in advising the public sector and in local government law. We work with local authorities, the health service , audit and regulation bodies, central government and other agencies.
Because The Bevan brittan law firm has such a knowledge of local government law we are able to advise people in the many areas such as corporate governance, employment, infrastructure, PFI/PPP, major investigations and inquiries, local authority liability claims and many other areas. Bevan brittan advises different organisations in the public and private sector on appropriate models of constitution and governance.We are therefore familiar with local government law, the design of organisational arrangements and issues of governance and potential liability for directors, members, trustees and partners.We have experience of dealing with liability issues in relation to council involvement in outside organisations and have advised extensively on vires and probity issues for public authorities.Our work involves joint venture and other collaborative and partnership arrangements. Bethan has over 18 years experience in the public sector. As a lawyer in local government
she worked for four councils in different roles including as a Deputy County Solicitor through
reorganisation in 1996, and as Director of Corporate Services for a large unitary authority.
Bethan worked for three years as Director of a local government agency supporting councils
with the introduction of Best Value and new political structures. Bethan specialises in
corporate governance, democratic decision making, judicial review and probity.
Bethan is a former Chair of the Law Society LocalGovernment Group for England and Wales and is
a member of SOLACE.