Overview
Landmark advises local authorities both in their capacity as regulator and as bodies subject to regulation by others. Landmark has experience across a wide range of regulatory regimes, including councillors, solicitors, police, planners, accountants, doctors, care homes and domiciliary care providers. Advisory work includes:
- To a local authority conducting disciplinary proceedings involving councillors
- Where a Leader of the Council was properly suspected of fraud, disclosure to the police and advice on division of responsibilities between officers and councillors
- To a consortium of Councils relating to Solicitors Regulation Authority requirements for merged legal services
- On the Care Quality Commission regulatory framework for care home operators
- Drafted the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023, which will expand LA powers to regulate supported housing
- On disclosure of social work records and medically confidential information within care proceedings, Court of Protection proceedings, criminal proceedings and professional disciplinary proceedings
- Local authority regulatory powers vis a vis the private rented sector, including Leicester CC v Morjaria [2023] UKUT 129 (LC) and Waltham Forest LBC v Hussain [2022] UKUT 241 (LC) (CA pending)
- Advising a local authority in relation to regulatory proceedings against its affordable housing adviser by RICS.
