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The in-house legal services team aims to provide high quality legal advice, assistance and representation on a whole range of legal specialisms applicable to local government, enabling the Council to provide services to those who live and work in the district.

Our team consists of experts who have worked for public bodies for many years. It also has lawyers with considerable private practice knowledge.

The team cover the full range of public law activity including:

Property law from simple transactions to complex economic regeneration developments.
Civil litigation from debt collection and PI work to judicial review proceedings.
Planning law including appeal work.
Enforcement including environmental health, planning and anti-social behaviour.
Contract and commercial law.
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