FFW Advises Home Office on Forensic Science Service Restructuring
16 January 2006
FFW Advises Home Office on Forensic Science Service
Restructuring
Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has advised the Home Office on the
restructuring of the Forensic Science Service (FSS).
The FSS provides the police and the criminal justice system with
essential forensic science services. It has now transformed
from being a Home Office Trading Fund to a separate,
Government-owned company. This change in status follows an
independent review by Robert McFarland in 2003 and will give the
FSS the commercial agility it requires to continue to compete
effectively in a changing market and remain at the leading edge of
forensic science in the UK and internationally.
This project underlines FFW’s position as a leading adviser to
central government departments. The firm is the only law firm
to have been appointed to all seven of the Government’s L-Cat
(Legal Catalogue) panels and was recently appointed to the Lit-Cat
(Litigation Catalogue) panel.
Corporate partners Tim Davies and Neil
Palmer led the FFW team, assisted by partners
David Gallagher (pensions), James Warren
(employment) and Jane Elkins and John
Pedder (property) and solicitors Martin Griffiths and
Charu Nagpal.
Tim Davies said: “We have been working on the FSS restructuring
for over two years and we are delighted to have successfully
completed the project. This is the second restructuring we
have completed for the Home Office this year and it demonstrates
the strength of the firm’s public sector capability.”
Charles Russell advised the FSS.
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