Notice Information
Notice Title
London Boroughs' Legal Alliance (LBLA) Barrister Framework
Notice Description
London Borough of Ealing has awarded contracts on behalf of the London Boroughs' Legal Alliance (the "LBLA"). The contract award is for a panel of expert and experienced legal advisers as preferred suppliers of specialist advocacy and related legal services.<br/><br/>Applicable Law - (Part V of The European Communities (Lawyer's Practice) Regulations 2000) to the extent that they regulations 6 and 10 of The Services of Lawyers and Lawyer's Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.
Lot Information
Adult Social Services
Adult Social Services
* Mental Health
* Displacement of nearest relatives (under Mental Health) in County Court;
* Community care, including procurement issues relating to providers
* Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty
* Court of protection
Functions of the local authority under the Care Act 2014 and relevant legislation relating to
children (for example at transition, young carers, etc.)
* Forced marriages, regardless of the age of the parties concerned (including children)
* Inquests
* Judicial Review;
* Public Interest Immunity;
* Inherent Jurisdiction;
* Leaving Care;
* NRPF single adults;
* Continuing Health Funding including disputes and advice re Health Bodies;
* Ordinary Residence
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year
Children's Services
* Care proceedings
* The Children Act 1989
* The Child Abduction & Custody Act
* Adoption proceedings, Special Guardianship and Placement Orders
* Public Interest Immunity
* Judicial Review
* Functions of the local authority under the Care Act 2014 and relevant legislation relating to
children (for example at transition, young carers, etc.)
* Forced marriage
* Advice on international placements and placement of children in other jurisdictions
* Injunctions, particularly in the context of social media campaigns involving cases, and
generally media advice in children related matters (including social media)
* Human Rights Claims
* FGM
* Inherent Jurisdiction & Wardship
* Deprivation of Liberty (under inherent jurisdiction)
* Age assessments
* Private Family Cases with LA involvement e.g. s7 and s37 Children Act 1989 cases
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year
Governance & Public Law
* Public and Administrative Law
* Governance, Constitutional & Policies
* Regulatory issues
* Commercial & Contractual disputes, and procurement issues, including Subsidy Control
* Information Law including Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Environmental
Information Regulations 2004
Local Government Finance
* Education, especially complex issues or issues relating to policy
* Employment matters, especially complex issues or relating to senior staff
* Judicial reviews on any subject matter
* Any other high profile, high risk matter, that is likely to have an impact on the authority as a
whole
* Company Law
* Establishment of Corporate Structures and Trading Vehicles, including Charities, LLPs,
ABSs, CBSs and JVs
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year.
Criminal Litigation & Prosecutions
* Trading Standards & Health & Safety, including food hygiene
* Fraud in relation to all areas of local authority activities, including Blue Badge, social care,
tenancy fraud and corporate fraud
* Full range of prosecution / enforcement work undertaken by local authorities including
planning, licensing (including HMO, Landlord, private rented sector and Housing health and
safety rating schemes licensing matters) and education and environmental crime (including
fly tipping, noise prosecutions, nuisance, ASB, policing and Care Act)
* POCA
* Housing Act 2004 enforcements
* Appeals in Magistrates Court regarding notices under Highways Act
* Appeals against noise abatement
* Community protection notices
* Penalty notices under Housing Act 2004
* General Regulatory Law
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year.
5. Housing
* Full range of local authority landlord & tenant matters, including advice and representation
* Homelessness (including s 204's)
* Allocations
* s.80 EPA
* Anti-social behaviour proceedings
* Injunctions
* Disrepair claims
* Repossession and evictions
* Gas servicing access claims
* Service charge disputes and Leasehold Valuation Tribunals
* Advice on internal Housing Management Policies and Procedures
* Public Law Defences
* Mortgage repossessions
* Trespasser Claims
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* Judicial review
* Leasehold disputes
* Public Law / Equality Act claims in relation to Housing
* Houses in Multiple Occupation
* Right to Buy
* Housing Act 2004 disputes in the First Tier Tribunal
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year
6. Planning
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* Planning Appeals
* Enforcement Notices including injunctions
* Highways
* Housing / Retail
* S106 Agreements
* Local Development Frameworks / Schemes
* TPOs
* CIL
* Town & Village greens
* Mixed Use Developments
* CPOs
* Judicial Review
* Injunctions
* Appropriation
* Regeneration
* Procurement
* Other general planning advice
* Permitted Development, Use Classes Order
* Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas
* Development Consent Order (DCO)/National Infrastructure/ Nationally Significant
Infrastructure Projects
* Planning Committees and Governance
* Green Belt/Village Greens. Additional information: Specialist legal consultants, Kennedy Cater, manage the LBLA and its Barristers Framework
Agreement on behalf of LBLA members, delivering legal spend savings and efficiency gains,
including an extensive legal training programme, delivered with the Barristers Framework
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chambers.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the
Atamis system.
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year.
7. Property
* Commercial & residential matters
* Lease renewals & forfeitures
* Mediation & arbitration of commercial LL&T Disputes
* Rights of Way (private & public)
* Restrictive covenants & easements
* Mortgages and Property Estoppels
* Possession actions
* Dilapidations
* Mixed Use Developments
* CPOs
* Judicial Review
* Injunctions
* Appropriation
* Regeneration
* Procurement
* Lease extensions and voluntary lease extensions, under commercial & residential matters
* Utilities, including wayleaves
* Telecommunications leases. Additional information: Specialist legal consultants, Kennedy Cater, manage the LBLA and its Barristers Framework
Agreement on behalf of LBLA members, delivering legal spend savings and efficiency gains,
including an extensive legal training programme, delivered with the Barristers Framework
chambers.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the
Atamis system
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year
8. Civil Litigation
* Full range of claims brought against local authorities, including personal injury claims
* Claims against the police (City of London especially)
* Coroners work
* Debt recovery
* General civil litigation, including traffic matters
* Commercial litigation
* Social media, reputation issues generally, and issues arising from the Defamation Act
* Construction litigation
* Judicial Reviews
* Injunctions, including s222 matters
* Council tax and national non-domestic rate (business rates) matters;
* Insolvency
* Litigation arising out of the Electronic Communications Code and attendant legislation
(including the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022)
* Public Realm litigation, including Challenges in relation to Low Traffic Neighbourhoods,
Traffic Management Orders, Parking, Bus Lane Enforcement and Markets. Additional information: Specialist legal consultants, Kennedy Cater, manage the LBLA and its Barristers Framework
Agreement on behalf of LBLA members, delivering legal spend savings and efficiency gains,
including an extensive legal training programme, delivered with the Barristers Framework
chambers.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the Atamis system
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024,
with an option to extend for a further year.
9. Employment
Full range of employment matters, including but not limited to the following;
* Unfair and constructive dismissal
* Discrimination
* Redundancy
* TUPE
* Pensions
* Employment contract issues
* Employee status
* Trade union rights and industrial action
* Unlawful deduction of wages
* Disciplinary and Grievance matters
* Recruitment and retention
* Bullying, harassment and victimisation
* Whistleblowing
* Employee and industrial relations
* Collective agreements
* Agency workers
* Employment & HR policies and procedures
* Parental leave
* Hybrid working
* Confidentiality and settlement agreements
* Employment Tribunal Claims
* Employment Appeals Tribunal Claims
* Employment Claims in the Crown Court and High Court
* Judicial Mediation. Additional information: Specialist legal consultants, Kennedy Cater, manage the LBLA and its Barristers Framework
Agreement on behalf of LBLA members, delivering legal spend savings and efficiency gains,
including an extensive legal training programme, delivered with the Barristers Framework
chambers.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the Atamis system
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024, with an option to extend for a further year
Education10. Education
* SENDIST
* Admissions
* Attendance issues
* Exclusion cases
* Disability discrimination claims in the SENDIST Tribunal
* Equalities and Human Rights, including advice and advocacy, including Transgender issues
* PRU - Pupil Referral Units
* School organisation, including opening and closing schools
* Governance issues
* Academy conversions
* Complaints and disputes at school, including parental complaints
* Judicial Review, including JR challenges regarding school transport
* Specialist employment advice
* School finance issues
* Intervention powers
* General Education Advice. Additional information: Specialist legal consultants, Kennedy Cater, manage the LBLA and its Barristers Framework
Agreement on behalf of LBLA members, delivering legal spend savings and efficiency gains,
including an extensive legal training programme, delivered with the Barristers Framework
chambers.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the
Atamis system
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024, with an option to extend for a further year
Licensing11. Licensing
* Licensing Act 2003 matters, including but not limited to alcohol licensing, club licenses,
stadium licenses, venue licenses, event and temporary event licenses and personal licenses
* Gambling Act 2005 matters, including but not limited to betting shops, casinos and bingo
halls
* London Local Authorities Acts matters
* Street trading (under London Local Authorities Acts, Miscellaneous Provisions Act and
authorities own street trading provisions);
* Pavement licensing, including Highways licensing
* Animal welfare licensing, including but not limited to licensing breeders, day care and
boarding establishments and breaches of animal welfare requirements
* Special Treatment licensing, including but not limited to tattooing and massage
* Street collections licensing
* Sex establishment licensing
* Taxi licensing (outside London)
* Judicial Reviews
* Attendance at committees, including representation for responsible authorities and acting
as legal advisor to committee
* Appeals against Committee decisions, including Licensing Committees and Gambling
Committees
* General licensing advice, including policy advice. Additional information: Specialist legal consultants, Kennedy Cater, manage the LBLA and its Barristers Framework
Agreement on behalf of LBLA members, delivering legal spend savings and efficiency gains,
including an extensive legal training programme, delivered with the Barristers Framework
chambers.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the
Atamis system
Options: The Framework Agreement will run for a period of 3 years commencing on 01 January 2024, with an option to extend for a further year.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03cd5f
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062548-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large, SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
79110000 - Legal advisory and representation services
79130000 - Legal documentation and certification services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £60,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £60,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £72,000,000 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Jul 20261 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 23 Jun 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 1 Jan 20242 years ago
- Contract Period
- 1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- London Borough of Ealing Council
- Additional Buyers
London Borough of Brent Council
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
London Borough of Waltham Forest
London Fire And Emergency Planning Authority
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CROYDON
- Postcode
- W5 2HL
- Postcode Area
- West London
- Country
- England
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI7 Outer London - West and North West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI73 Ealing
- Delivery Location
- TLI London
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- Local Authority
- Ealing
- Electoral Ward
- Ealing Broadway
- Westminster Constituency
- Ealing Central and Acton
Further Information
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