Public Sector
Our lawyers are passionate about the public sector and the work that our public sector clients do. We like to work closely with our clients and to develop close working relationships with them. We enjoy working with clients who have a particular public function and our priority is to work with them so that they can carry out that function in accordance with the law. Our priority is to provide advice that is not only effective but that is mindful of the particular ethical and statutory obligations that are borne by those operating in the public sector
Services provided by Coulter Roache Lawyers' Public Sector team include:
- judicial reviews and statutory appeals
- statutory delegations
- statutory appointments
- drafting secondary legislation and local laws
- drafting licence conditions
- human rights compliance
- commercial agreements
- workplace relations
- prosecutions and investigations
- intellectual property disputes and protection
- health services
Experience
Our experience in this area includes:
- working closely with a statutory bodies to draft detailed secondary legislation
- conducting audits to check that delegations and statutory authorizations were in order and where appropriate redrafting documents to ensure compliance
- providing general administrative law advice on issues such as 'proper purposes' and 'reasonableness'.
- commercialization of intellectual property databases established by public sector bodies
- employment law advice
- workplace relations
- assisting with statutory negligence claims
- conducting various judicial reviews and other statutory appeals
- advising on statutory powers in relation to various regulatory regimes
- conducting prosecutions and investigations
Members of the Public Sector Group are: