News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

The LLG Grapevine - Week 35 Available Now
Publish date: 01/03/2021
Talking Law in Local Government
LLG Webinar: Employee Vaccinations
Publish date: 26/02/2021
Can employers require employees to get vaccinated? How do we manage testing and employees refusing to go to work? Join us at our free webinar on March 3rd 12-1pm.
National Lead Partnership & Procurement Zoom Meeting 4th March 12pm
Event date: 04/03/2021
Join us for our next National Lead meeting with guest speaker Vincent King partner at Weightmans LLP & LLG National Lead for Partnership & Procurement Kieran McGaughey to discuss LLG Green Paper response
LLG & ADSO Serve Pre-Action Letter on Secretary of State
Publish date: 25/02/2021
The Association of Democratic Services Officers (ADSO) and Lawyers in Local Government (LLG) have been lobbying the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to change primary legislation to enable local authority remote meetings to take place beyond the current statutory deadline of 6 May 2021. In the event of this not being successful, and to support the Secretary of State in his wish to find a solution, ADSO, LLG and Hertfordshire County Council have instructed counsel to issue proceedings in the High Court to seek a declaratory judgement to enable such meetings to take place within existing legislation.
LLG Appoints New Employment National Lead Felicia Epstein
Publish date: 25/02/2021
LLG are delighted to announce the appointment our new National Lead for Employment Felicia Epstein at the launch of our Employment Zoom Meeting today.
The LLG Grapevine - Week 34 Available Now
Publish date: 22/02/2021
Talking Law in Local Government
Guidance for Covid Secure Elections 2021
Publish date: 22/02/2021
Hertfordshire County Council have produced Guidance for Covid Secure Elections 2021 spearhead by their Director of Public Health Jim McManus, as part of their Hertfordshire Covid-19 Safe Elections Public Health Guidance Group comprising several senior officers including our own President, Quentin Baker ,who is the Chief Legal Officer and Returning Officer at Hertfordshire. It covers general infection control measures, communications to voters prior to polling day, candidate briefings and nomination arrangements, polling stations and counting operations. Published with grateful thanks to Hertfordshire and Jim McManus.
Presidents Blog – Exit Cap Success and the Role of LLG
Publish date: 19/02/2021
Quentin Baker, President of LLG discusses the Government's climb down following the revocation of the Exit Cap Payment Regulations alongside the role both he and LLG played together with ALACE, in bringing Judicial Review proceedings to challenge the flaws in the Regulations.
The LLG Grapevine - Week 33 Available Now
Publish date: 16/02/2021
Talking Law in Local Government
Anthony Collins Publish Annual Social Impact Report
Publish date: 15/02/2021
Our corporate partners Anthony Collins have published the results of their annual social impact report, highlighting how their work during 2020 has improved lives, communities and society.

Blog

26 February 2021

Publish date: 26/02/2021

LLG was a flurry of activity this week thanks to our online training and networking provision. We were joined by Jacqui McKinlay from the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny on Wednesday for our LLG Brief on the Path to Governance Failure who focused on 'governance risk characteristics' and shared details of soon to be published research aimed at statutory officers. Jacqui was joined by Bethan Evans who explored the lessons learnt from authorities such as Croydon and provided advice on avoiding 'significant failings in leadership and management'.

Thursday, our newly appointed National Lead for Employment, Felicia Epstein, hosted an employment meeting which saw Doug Mullen from Anthony Collins present on pensions (including the thorny issue of disputed nominations upon death) together with the employment considerations of working from home. Following a useful breakout session where we listened to our members views, we are now putting together a focused webinar on covid-19 vaccinations and employment duties for the 3rd March (next week!)- so do book-on via our training pages. Thursday also saw the East Midlands Branch virtual meeting with two break out rooms for training provision on governance from Olwen Brown and Matthew Gregson at Anthony Collins aimed at Monitoring Officers and Amardeep Gill and Louis Sebastian from Trowers and Hamlins aimed at junior lawyers. We were delighted with the membership engagement from all these events reaching nearly 500 members live and of course, if you missed them, you can catch up on our website either within our on-demand webinars or within the national lead or branch pages.

On the subject of membership engagement, we are very excited to announce the date of our LLG Awards 2021 virtual ceremony on 15th July 2021. This year will see something a little different, which looks to recognise significant achievement, dedication and resilience during the pandemic. Details will be released very soon so start thinking about who has gone the extra mile to support your legal service or your community. Have you driven through a project despite the obstacles of covid-19? Did you volunteer in your community? We want to find the real champions of 2020-2021 despite the adversity. Last year's event was a real tonic and following the popularity of the best pet in lockdown, we will certainly be running further competitions to inject a bit of fun into the evening.

Best wishes

Helen McGrath

Head of Public Affairs

Helen@llg.org.uk