Further Education Lawyers

Further education

Save time, minimise financial risk and protect and enhance your reputation by utilising our team of experts as your single-source legal services provider.

How we can advise you

Saving time, protecting brand and reputation and reducing costs; we understand the particular concerns facing further education colleges.

Using our team as your single-source legal provider means issues can be dealt with quickly and comprehensively, giving you peace of mind.

We not only provide advice on issues as they arise, but supply preventative measures such as pro-active risk management services.

Our team’s experience has a national and international reach, and spans the full spectrum of legal services affecting further education colleges including:

Admissions and policies
Charities
Commercial contracts
Energy services projects including Carbon Reduction Commitment
Estates and facilities
Human resources
Litigation and dispute resolution
Planning
Risk management including trips and excursion policies

How our team will work with you

We work closely with clients to understand their commercial objectives, enabling us to contribute to strategic development, anticipate change and turn risk into opportunity.
As an accredited legal services provider under the Crescent Purchasing Consortium, we are able to field a team of experts to provide solutions-orientated advice to meet your specific requirements.
Our clients
We act for over 100 educational institutions including:
Universities
Independent schools
State-funded schools
Colleges and the Crescent Purchasing Consortium
Dioceses and religious bodies
Other educational organisations
Our experience
Advising a well-known North West based education establishment on a proposed joint venture with Salford City Council to create Salford Innovation Park. This also entailed dealing with a proposed acquisition of a further site from Salford City Council and appointment of a service provider to manage the park.
Advising an educational institution on specialist intellectual property issues, including copyright licences, confidentiality agreements and licensing agreements.
Advising an educational institution on a large-scale energy scheme with a capital value in excess of £10 million.
Advising on the procurement of a large scale redevelopment by a further education college which included the construction of new apartments and accommodation dealing with funding, construction and development agreement documentation.
Recent experience includes advising a school regarding the suspension of a head teacher and subsequent disciplinary proceedings and advising in respect of an internal grievance issued by a university lecturer and allegations relating to stress at work.
Providing advisory and dispute resolution services to colleges, schools, universities and their insurers; we have advised institutions on internal complaints procedures and have defended court proceedings against them.
In disability cases we have advised on the duty to make adjustments to support students and how to avoid discrimination claims.
The negotiation of a section 106 planning agreement to enable the redevelopment of a prominent North West-based secondary school under the Building Schools for the Future Programme.