Property Solicitor M5

Job Category: Legal.
Location: Luton, Bedfordshire.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Salary: £23.77.

PURPOSE OF POST:
To assist in the provision of a comprehensive legal service to the Council, its Executive, Committees and Sub-Committees, and to Departments.
To provide legal advice and to be responsible for a personal legal case load in relation to property matters

1. Give legal advice, often in relation to highly complex matters, to Officers and 25 members of the Council as required to achieve innovative solutions to problems which comply with the law.
2. Conduct all types of land related transactions in an effective efficient and timely 25 manner to achieve any relevant budgetary targets or policies set by the Council while ensuring that the law is complied with.
3. Carry out, with the minimum of supervision, a wide range of other legal work as 25 required, including the drafting of any necessary documents (but excluding advocacy before Courts and Tribunals) to implement decisions taken in pursuance of the Council’s functions.
4. Prepare reports for and attend and give legal and procedural advice, including 15 in relation to complex and highly complex matters to the Executive, to any Committee or Members of such Executive and to such Committees, SubCommittees, Working Parties and other groups of Members or Officers as may be required to enable decisions to be taken and implemented in accordance with the law.
5. Exercise judgement as to whether specialist legal advice and/or assistance is 5 required and instruct Counsel in such cases as may be approved by the Head of HR and Monitoring Officer or the Principal Solicitor (Property and Planning) to enable decisions to be taken and implemented in accordance with the law.
6. Participate in projects relating to corporate, interdivisional or interdepartmental 5 work as may be required by the Principal Solicitor (Property and Planning) or the Head of HR and Monitoring Officer to enable the Council to formulate and implement policies in accordance with the law.

Experience
In depth experience of effecting major Property work of all types with limited supervision
Local Government Experience Desirable
Experience of Highway and CPO matters Desirable

Education and Training
Applicants must be Solicitors, Barristers, or Chartered Legal Executives qualified in England and, in the case of solicitors, hold (or be able to obtain) a current practising certificate or, in the case of Barristers enjoy (or be able to obtain) rights of audience under paragraphs 402.1(c) and 402.2 of the Code of Conduct for Barristers in
England and Wales