Legal services for Public sector organisations
At Browne Jacobson, we are thought leaders providing world-class advice on current and complex matters of government. Our years of expertise in business and society give us a unique insight into both public and private bodies. This, coupled with our ability to forge strong relationships with governmental organisations, puts us at the centre of public sector modernisation; while our market-leading work in organisational change, the drive to carbon neutrality, digital transformation, regeneration and more, puts us at the forefront of society’s biggest issues.
General legal advice and services for the wider public sector
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Anja Beriro
Partner

Peter Ware
Partner
Public matters newsletters
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - September 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - June 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - May 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - April 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - March 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - February 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - January 2023
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - December 2022
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - November 2022
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - October 2022
Updates include UK Shared Prosperity Fund, contracts, Subsidy Control Bill, data controller liability, Government Covid-19 procurement and Highway Code revisions.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - September 2022
Welcome to our September edition of Public Matters, our monthly round-up of legal updates, news and insights for the public sector.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - August 2022
Welcome to our August edition of Public Matters, our monthly round-up of legal updates, news and insights for the public sector.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - June 2022
Updates include Acclimatise! You can’t afford to cop-out, Responding to Grenfell – Slow progress is better than none and more.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - May 2022
Updates include Section 106, Changes to the statutory framework for local government in Wales and more.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - April 2022
Updates include Local Health Systems, The role of local government and the UK EV Infrastructure Strategy and more.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - March 2022
Updates include Agile contracting in Government, Liberty Protection Safeguards, survey consultation, Health and safety success for schools at trial and more.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - February 2022
Updates include UK Shared Prosperity Fund, contracts, Subsidy Control Bill, data controller liability, Government Covid-19 procurement and Highway Code revisions.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - January 2022
Updates include social care, procurement, COP26 and employment law.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - December 2021
Updates include waste law, construction contracts, procurement, and education law.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - November 2021
Updates include data breach claims, contract law, procurement & bids, Environmental Protection Act, historical abuse & negligence.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - October 2021
Updates include the EV charging, force majeure, the National Disability Strategy and Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - September 2021
Updates include the UK Hydrogen Strategy and IPA assistance with PFI contract expiry.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - July 2021
Updates on leisure contracts, SSPs, children's social care, construction, subject access disclosure, Building Safety Bill and Japanese knotweed.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public Matters - June 2021
This month includes updates on GPoC, JCT or NEC, 'failure to remove' claims, regeneration, risk in health and social care and subsidy control.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - May 2021
This month includes updates on safe use of council offices, recent changes to Part 36 Offers and leading through change.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - April 2021
This month includes updates on safe use of council offices, recent changes to Part 36 Offers and leading through change.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - March 2021
This month includes updates on extreme weather liability risk, the Debt Respite Scheme, changes to Practice Direction 57AC and Post-Covid child abuse litigation.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - February 2021
This month includes updates on state aid/ subsidy control regime, London Borough of Lambeth v AM, data protection, and administration law.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - January 2021
This month includes updates on state aid/ subsidy control regime, Norfolk County Council v Durrant, UK Freeport Regime, public sector exit pay, discretionary functions and powers, trading companies and special purchase vehicles.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - December 2020
This month includes updates on procurement, local government reorganisation, R v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care, government contracting, state aid, insolvency and school attendance.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - November 2020
This month includes updates on conservation, judicial review, re-organisation, procurement and social value.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - October 2020
This month includes local government exit pay, indirect discrimination, state aid, transparency in supply chains and corporate transparency and register.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - September 2020
This month includes The Internal Market Bill, A Plan for Jobs 2020, 'build back better' and procurement, VAT reform for 'section 41' organisations, local government reorganisation, independent review of administrative law, outsourcing and planning.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - August 2020
This month includes the Environment Bill, procurement, Temporary Framework and state aid, departing from EU case law, trading company governance and the Planning White Paper consultation.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - July 2020
This month focuses on the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit, as well as public to public cooperation, contracts, conservation, MSA and social care.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - June 2020
This month focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on environmental law, housing disrepair and English devolution and a highways Court of Appeal decision.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - February 2020
This month includes public procurement, planning, the Clean Air Bill, rent regulation, and in loco parentis in schools.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - January 2020
This month includes construction and the environment, clean air, legal privilege, dissipation of assets to avoid care home fees, state aid, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Part 36 case update.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - December 2019
This month includes the election result impact on local government, devolution, village green registrations, legal privilege and Poole Borough Council v GN.
Legal Update - Public matters newsletter
Public matters - November 2019
This month includes publicity considerations for public bodies, including the health service in the pre-election period, ECJ guidance on applying exclusions to potential problem bidders, devolution deal for Metro Mayors.