Local Government
Practice Areas
Planning, development and property
- Development plans, permissions and agreements
- Housing
- Highways and transportation
- Compulsory acquisition
- Asset management
Governance and partnership
- Decision-making
- Liabilities of agencies, authorities, members and officers
- Collaborative working and partnership structures
- Audit, legal and financial accountability, judicial review
Elections
- Advice in relation to duties of the Returning Officer
- Election expenses
- Postal voting
- Election petitions
Service and spending reviews, income generation and commissioning
- Obligations and discretions in different service areas, consultation requirements and impact assessments
- Possible charging vehicles
- Commissioning opportunities and state agency obligations in procurement
Conduct and complaints
- Investigation of misconduct allegations
- Responding to complaints
Access to information
- Obligations of confidentiality and data security
- Rights to the disclosure of information
Other
- Electoral and polling arrangements
