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Oct 21, 2022 · It has become a convention in local government that reports have legal implications even though there is no statutory requirement. The legal role is to advise the authors of the report and in due course decision makers what the legal implications are of the decision they are recommended to make.
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Legal Department. Contents. Our Purpose and Vision. Who we are. Corporate information. We do this by providing legal advice on the development, design and implementation of government policies...
May 10, 2013 · We have arrived at a point where authoritative expert guidance from the Executive that will help us to apply the law correctly might not need the prop of a ‘statutory’ label to make it binding; whereas even the label ‘statutory’ gives us no certainty that guidance is actually compliant with the law so that it should be followed.
The Legal Directorate is central to the Department’s operations and helps Ministers and policy colleagues apply the law and manage legal risk; and to make new law so as best to achieve the...
The main legal means by which the decisions and actions of Government departments, regulators and other public bodies can be challenged is judicial review. This note provides a brief introduction to judicial review, focusing on: the judicial review process.
