News & Events

Listed below are the national news items and national events.

• Last chance to respond to LLG 2020 Conference & Events Survey

  Publish date: 18/11/2020

  LLG are keen to hear your views on what type of conferences and events you would like LLG to provide in the 'new normal'

• The LLG Grapevine - Week 23 Available Now

  Publish date: 17/11/2020

  Talking Law in Local Government

• The LLG Grapevine - Week 22 Available Now

  Publish date: 10/11/2020

  Talking Law in Local Government

• Free Webinar - Mortgage Matters for Legal Professionals: Making the Most of the Stamp Duty Cut

  Publish date: 06/11/2020

  Wesleyan Financial Services and Lawyers in Local Government present this free-to-attend webinar, that will discuss mortgage matters. The webinar lasts approximately 20 minutes, and can be watched at your leisure.

• 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.