We can support you during all phases of the construction process with our dedicated team of construction and engineering lawyers. We have an appreciation of the political drivers surrounding funding, seeking regulatory and stakeholder approvals and the criticality of timing to ensure the education you provide isn’t disrupted.
Our team is involved in advising across the entire spectrum of contracting entities within the education sphere ranging from local authorities, building contractors, consultants and education providers. Due to this, we appreciate and acknowledge the headline issues and competing interests faced by all of the contracting parties and their respective key drivers in the delivery of the construction and maintenance of schools.
In addition to our transactional expertise, we have vast experience in project and risk management as well as advising on claims handling and dispute resolution where we have successfully advised education providers, local authorities and contractors in progressing and settling claims. Our experience in advising on claims from small value disputes to complex high value claims along with involvement in all forums for dispute resolution, including mediation, expert determination and adjudication, as well as court proceedings and arbitration, means that we’re ideally placed to support you with any issue you might encounter.
Advised a national building contractor on the project, construction and funding documents under the PSBP PF2 structure for the design and construction of 12 new and refurbished schools with a construction cost of £110m.
Advised a major contractor on the construction contracts and ancillary construction documents for the design and build of two schools for a London Borough procuring the construction through its LEP under a Strategic Partnering Agreement under the Building Schools for the Future Programme with capital expenditure in excess of £55m.
Advising a local authority on the procurement of schools adopting the SCAPE framework.
Acting for a number of academies advising on their school conversions and separately on their standalone construction procurement.
"The team at Browne Jacobson are extremely clear and transparent in their communication with clients … which makes the process of engagement a much more enjoyable and seamless exercise. One key strength is their ability to recognise and share best practice in order to inform future development and improvement."
"The team provides a brilliant service and has a thorough knowledge of the sector."
"... willing to work differently with in house teams – genuinely collaborative in approach, willing to be flexible and think outside the box when trying to fix issues from live casework to recruitment and development of staff … like an extension of the in house team – a much needed distinguishing factor as against their peers in the market."
"They are effective, efficient and user-friendly."
Browne Jacobson’s education team has been named as winner of the ‘Legal Advisors to Education Institutions’ category at the Education Investor Awards 2022 for a record sixth time.
Over 3000 young people from across the UK and Ireland took part in a virtual legal careers insight event, aimed at making the legal profession more diverse.
The new set of Legal 500 directory rankings have been published and we are proud to once again be recognised as one of the country’s leading firms advising the Education sector.
National law firm Browne Jacobson has grown its team behind its dedicated Space + Time executive coaching programme with the addition of two more qualified coaches who will work with clients in the education sector.
Tomorrow, (Wednesday 27th October), national law firm Browne Jacobson will host its second FAIRE: virtual work experience and legal careers insight event, in partnership with Young Professionals.
The Confederation of School Trusts (CST), as the sector body for School Trusts, today releases a salary benchmarking service for executive roles in School Trusts, in conjunction with partners XpertHR, Cendex and Browne Jacobson.
As the new year comes into view, many schools will be considering plans to build or to extend their facilities next year.
