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We specialise in managing and reducing risk, ensuring cost control, and minimising disruptions while supporting public services and organisations through a collaborative, trust-building approach.
Clyde & Co is the leading insurance law firm in the world. We are proud sponsors of ALARM, and our specialist Public Sector team is committed to managing and reducing risk for public services and public sector organisations.
Our work in the Public Sector focuses on managing and reducing risk. We ensure costs are kept under control and there is minimum loss of time.
We understand Public Sector organisations and the challenges they face. We promote a sensitive, collaborative approach to establish trust between parties. We work closely with clients to uphold their ethos, protect their reputation and support their working methods.
With a track-record of experience working with Local Authorities, our focus is on routine contentious and non-contentious matters as well as highly sensitive incidents, including allegations of historical and contemporary abuse, fatalities, misfeasance, discrimination, discipline, admissions, bullying and harassment, defamation, neglect or breach of duty of care in social service provision, fitness to practise within educational settings and failure to educate. We also concentrate on data protection and cyber, human rights claims and judicial reviews.
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We are regarded as the pre-eminent defendant firm for litigation against the police and are instructed on complex, sensitive and novel issues of the law. Our team is Security Check (SC) level vetted and ranked 1 in Chambers & Partners for police law.
We specialise in a range of claims including misfeasance, malicious prosecution, assault, false imprisonment, catastrophic personal injury, breaches of data protection, the Human Rights Act and the Equality Act. We also focus on injuries at work, occupational disease and stress claims. We have a wealth of experience in representing chief constables in judicial reviews and inquests, in addition to representing officers in public inquiries. We also have a dedicated motor team. We advise on disciplinary issues, proceeds of crime and damage to police property.
Our expertise in the fire and rescue sector is enviable, with considerable experience advising organisations from the outset of major incidents, through to the resolution of claims. Our work includes representing organisations in regulatory matters, public inquiries, inquests and civil claims. We are adept at working with representative bodies and in dealing with difficult aspects of fire and rescue pension law.
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Clyde & Co’s social housing team is recognised nationally, and locally, as a leader in its field in representing Housing Associations in a wide range of activity. The team are increasingly well positioned to support clients on property and commercial work, including development and acquisitions, as well as funding and employment. With dedicated specialists in Social Housing and Housing Associations the team continues to demonstrate strength in housing management and disrepair, with a reputational strength in litigation.
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Clyde & Co’s dedicated Charities & Non-Profit team work closely with clients in this sector to understand and meet their aims to minimise unnecessary costs and reach a swift resolution. We are sensitive to varying demands and requirements which arise, depending upon the circumstances and the approach our client wishes to pursue. Our extensive experience of dealing with sensitive cases helps us to work with clients to anticipate potential media interest, develop strategies that are mindful of reputational concerns and ensure media exposure is controlled and legally accurate.
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Our Public Sector Transport team has a proven track record across rail and road. We advise on a broad range of services, and our lawyers understand the nuances for risk managers working in Public Sector Transport. Our blend of transactional and contentious strengths ensures that clients receive the best possible advice in one client-focused team. Transport sectors are pivotal to the prosperity of nations. Investing in, developing and maintaining assets in the right way can have a significant positive impact on a nation's development and its economic and social well-being.
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Our dedicated Public Sector Education team has a track-record of success in this sector to deliver pragmatic, innovative and commercial advice to Educational Institutions. Our specialisms include; Abuse, Asbestos, Assaults, Failure to Supervise, HSE & Investigations in schools/colleges relating to building safety, tree fatalities/injuries and incidents during sports activities, Police investigations in schools/colleges/FE, Teaching standards, Safeguarding, Slips and trips, Stress/Harassment, Suicide.
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We continue to advise English and German companies in the Evonik group on their properties in England, including complex property and environmental advice on the disposal of former industrial sites for remediation and potential development.
Acting for an overseas investor on the acquisition and asset management of their entire commercial property portfolio across England, Wales & Scotland. Most recently, we advised on the acquisition and simultaneous refinance of two portfolios for £43m – totalling 23 multi let industrial and out of town retail estates with a combined value of over £130m.
Acting for Barwood Capital on the acquisition and preparation for development of Firth Way, Nottingham, a key site located within two miles of the M1 on the Blenheim Industrial Estate for the proposed development of a single 370,000 sq ft industrial unit.
Acting for Bolsover Land Limited (a JV between Almcor and St Francis Group) on the acquisition of a former chemical plant in Bolsover, Derbyshire to regenerate and develop the site as for logistics warehousing of over 1.4m sq. ft. Covering all aspects of the project including JV documentation, acquisition and development work.
We continue to advise English and German companies in the Evonik group on their properties in England, including complex property and environmental advice on the disposal of former industrial sites for remediation and potential development.
Acting for Barwood Capital on the acquisition and preparation for development of Firth Way, Nottingham, a key site located within two miles of the M1 on the Blenheim Industrial Estate for the proposed development of a single 370,000 sq ft industrial unit.
We are currently promoting the IERRT NSIP. This DCO application seeks consent for the construction and operation for Stena Line of a new three berth Ro-Ro facility in the Port of Immingham. The Examination closed this January and we continue to advise in respect of post-Examination matters pending a decision.
Acting on the creation of a JV between Greenergy and Almcor for the Thames Enterprise Park (TEP), Stanford le Hope, to acquire a 50% shareholding in the TEP business from Greenery and on various aspects of the project, including the disposal of non-essential land holdings and a development.
Our team is built on scale, expertise and a new vision for technology. With scale, comes the largest data set in the casualty space, providing more complete answers and better management information.
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