News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

• The LLG Grapevine - Week 21

  Publish date: 03/11/2020

  Talking Law in Local Government

• Hasty planning reform threatens the environment, says Society

  Publish date: 30/10/2020

  Law Society responds to the government’s Planning for the Future consultation

• LLG Publish Response to the Ministry of Justice Judicial Review Call for Evidence

  Publish date: 27/10/2020

  LLG supports the need for sustained accountability, transparency, and openness. We consider strongly that there is a positive case for the ongoing scrutiny of public decision making. It enables effective advice to be given within local government to engender robust and lawful decision making, whilst protecting access to justice. The system remains of profound importance in ensuring that the judiciary is separate from the executive within the constitution. Click to read more

• Listen to week 20 of The LLG Grapevine

  Publish date: 27/10/2020

  Talking Law in Local Government

• Press Release on LLG's Position to the Exit Payment Cap Regulations

  Publish date: 27/10/2020

  Like many lawyers, LLG are growing increasingly disturbed by the erosion of the rule of law, the nibbling away at one of the fundamental principles that underpins democracy. The disregard for proper process in parliamentary decision making, coupled with the undermining of parliamentary scrutiny, cannot solely be blamed for the need for fast-paced emergency decision making.

• LLG Issue Pre-Action Protocol Letter to HMT in respect of the Exit Payment Cap

  Publish date: 23/10/2020

  We have today issued a pre-action protocol letter to HM Treasury the content of which highlights the significant legal flaws in the proposed regulations and the process via which they have been brought thus far.

• The LLG Grapevine - week 19 available now

  Publish date: 20/10/2020

  Talking Law in Local Governemnt

• ​Is Now the Right Time to Review Your Council's Constitution?

  Publish date: 19/10/2020

  Ed Hammond, Director of Campaigns and Research at the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny examines whether now is the right time to review your constitution in light of the pandemic.

• The LLG Grapevine - Week 18 available now

  Publish date: 12/10/2020

  Talking Law in Local Government

• LLG President, Quentin Baker, Objects to Law Society Council Seat Reduction.

  Publish date: 08/10/2020

  I have written to the President of the Law Society and Council Seat Members today to strongly object to proposals to halve local government lawyer representation on the Law Society Council.