Higher Education Lawyers
Higher education experts
We understand the legal needs of higher education providers and are committed to protecting and maximising your assets and reputation.
How we can advise you
Against a background of a constantly evolving managerial environment and changeable legal framework, we can give you the advice you need to sustain a competitive edge.
We fully understand the legal needs of modern higher education institutions, and are committed to protecting and maximising your assets and reputation.
We can provide pragmatic advice on:
- Property management
- Estates and facilities
- Planning
- Major capital construction projects
- Charitable and trading activities
- Admissions and policies
- Human resources
- Commercial contracts
- Energy services projects, including Carbon Reduction Commitment
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Risk management, including trips and excursions policies
- Freedom of information
- Disability, age, gender, race, sex or religion discrimination
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How our team will work with you
We deliver all the advice you need from right across the legal spectrum, providing one team of lawyers who know you, your team, and your objectives; saving you time, cost, and inconvenience.
We work closely with you to contribute to strategic development, anticipate change and turn risk into opportunity.
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Our clients
Hill Dickinson acts 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
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Our experience
- Acquiring a new campus for a university from a local authority and advising on the procurement of a large scale redevelopment by a further education college which included the construction of new apartments and accommodation and dealing with funding, construction and development agreement documentation.
- Advising an educational institution on a large-scale energy scheme with a capital value in excess of £10 million.
- In disability cases we have advised on the duty to make adjustments to support students and how to avoid discrimination claims.
- Advising on trade union issues including recognition, collective bargaining and industrial action caused by national strikes.
- Our team provides a full service on all planning issues including advice on making applications, preparation of planning appeals and negotiation of agreements with local authorities such as planning obligations and highways agreements to facilitate development.
- Advising institutions on internal complaints procedures and defending court proceedings against them.
- Risk management including trips and excursion policies: advising on matters relating to school trips, including child protection issues, accidents and crisis planning and response.
- Advising a well-known higher education establishment in relation to a number of key construction projects including new halls of residences and a bio-science building.
- Advising an educational institution on specialist intellectual property issues, including copyright licences, confidentiality agreements and licensing agreements.
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