Higher education institutions (HEIs) are unique organisations with complex structures and subject to wide ranging regulation. In common with all organisations, effective governance at HEIs plays an important role in supporting and ensuring operational performance. Ensuring compliance with constitutional, governance and regulatory requirements is also key to managing risk in this area.
Our experienced team of education lawyers advises on all aspects of constitutional and governance issues. Our focus is on providing practical, commercial and innovative advice and adding value whenever we can.
We advise on the full range of issues HEIs are likely to face including:
We provide specialist legal advice on constitutional and governance issues affecting the higher education sector. For more information, please contact Dominic Swift.
Reviewing the approach of a university to ensure compliance with consumer protection law including a review of its Student Protection Plan and its arrangements for ensuring that current and future students were well informed about their choices and the arrangements in place to ensure continuity of programmes of study.
Advising a Russell Group university on the duties and responsibilities of Members of Council across the full regulatory regime including in their roles as charity trustees.
Advising a university on its obligations in relation to reporting reportable events to the OfS following updated guidance.
Advising a university on the incorporation of a trading subsidiary to manage its intellectual property portfolio and implement its wide-reaching technology transfer initiatives.
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"The team is often the first port of call for clients seeking strategic advice and support on many of the most highly sensitive, complex, political and media-sensitive issues affecting the sector."
"As a market leader, the firm’s education practice provides expert legal advice to clients across the full range of legal practice areas. Its status as a genuine heavyweight, thought leader and influencer, has seen it garner a stellar reputation amongst many of the country’s most well-known and well-respected education providers."
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.
In this edition we provide you with the latest in legal updates, news and insight from the higher education sector.
Cases involving the handling allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct by Universities continues to hit the news. They are clearly difficult issues for Universities given the competing duties owed to both the reporting individual and the alleged perpetrator and the inevitable sensitivities around the nature of these matters.
The data protection legislation (namely, the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018) contain various provisions that deal with the processing of personal data for research purposes.
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.
In this edition we provide you with the latest in legal updates, news and insight from the higher education sector.
In this edition we provide you with the latest in legal updates, news and insight from the higher 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.
In this edition of our higher education newsletter, we provide you with the latest in legal updates, news and insight from the higher education sector.
In this edition we provide you with the latest in legal updates, news and insight from the higher education sector.
