Public regulatory
We specialise in advising regulators and relevant public bodies
as well as supporting a wide range of commercial organisations on
regulatory matters.
Clients routinely instruct us to audit their regulatory
frameworks against best practice and advise on issues including the
powers and duties of public bodies and officials, consultation
processes and the implementation of new statutory and non-statutory
schemes. We also advise on the requirements of fairness and natural
justice, human rights and legal challenges to regulatory
decisions.
Our lawyers are closely allied to our public sector, commercial and privacy & information law teams, working
with them on a daily basis to achieve the best overall business
result. Our sector focus includes media, social care, energy, communications, life
sciences, healthcare, advertising, sport
and aviation.
Our experience includes:
- advice on vires, governance and statutory
interpretation
- rule drafting and obtaining primary and secondary
legislation
- lobbying and consultations
- regulatory audits
- challenging EU measures and their implementation /
introduction
- obtaining regulatory pre-approvals
- assessing internal procedures and risk
- training on managing risk, law, procedures and
investigation
- public and private investigations and
inquiries
- bringing and defending legal challenges
- preparation and prosecution of regulatory
cases
- criminal and quasi-criminal investigations
- accounting / disclosing to regulators and
super-regulators
- advising panels and tribunals
- EU litigation
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We have a market-leading public and regulatory law team that
advises public bodies and private organisations on regulatory,
disciplinary and public law matters.
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