State Aid and Procurement
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
- Criminal Planning Matters
- Development Contracts and Overage
- Development Plans and other planning policy
- Energy
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Flooding and Drainage
- Fracking
- Highways, Footpaths and Rights of Way
- Infrastructure
- Landscape, Agriculture and Countryside
- Marine Planning and Harbour Orders
- Neighbourhood Planning
- Parliamentary Bills
- Planning Advice
- Planning Appeals, Inquiries and Hearings
- Planning Enforcement
- Planning Injunctions
- Planning Judicial and Statutory Reviews
- Section 106 Agreements and Enforcement
- Strategic Environmental Assessment
- State Aid and Procurement
- Transport Orders
- Village Greens, Commons and Manorial Rights
- Wildlife and Habitats
- Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
Landmark’s public procurement team offers expertise in all areas of public procurement, with barristers regularly instructed to advise on procurement related issues in particular in the urban development, housing, healthcare, transport, waste, energy and utilities sectors.
Our team advises economic operators, contracting authorities and third parties on all stages of procurement competitions, including non-contentious advice on the design of tenders and ITTs, the conduct of competitions and litigation arising out of challenges to contract award decisions, through to post-award contract variations and assignment. We have acted in many of the most significant procurement cases in recent years in the UK courts.
Specific areas of expertise include:
- NHS procurement and commissioning (pharmaceuticals, clinical and other services);
- Central government contracting, including loan schemes initiatives and the MoJ’s implementation of legal aid reform;
- Construction projects for national infrastructure projects;
- Development agreements for urban regeneration, including local authority estate regeneration programmes;
- Transport projects;
- PFI/PPP contracts and project financing;
- Electricity Market Reform and the Contracts for Difference auctions;
- Renewable energy solar schemes;
- Local authority contracts, including waste and renewable energy schemes.
Recent leading work includes
- Litigation (now settled) in the High Court of Northern Ireland concerning a challenge to Northern Ireland’s most significant waste disposal contract;
- R (Faraday Development Ltd) v West Berks Council [2018] EWCA Civ 2532;
- R (Wylde) v Waverly Borough Council [2017] P.T.S.R. 1245.