Our children and education law specialists work together to ensure that the schools and local authorities we advise receive a rounded, comprehensive service.
Amy specialises in childcare and education matters (SENT and SEN tribunals) and has Higher Rights of Audience for civil matters. She has served as a legal adviser to the Adoption Agency since 2004. Amy joined ELS in 1998 from Manchester City Council. Amy is a member of Essex Family Justice Council. Amy has over 17 years of ...
Julie Roberts is our Property Legal Services Manager. Julie joined Essex County Council in 2001 and has worked in local government since 1989. She specialises in all matters of commercial property law including; freehold disposals incorporating option agreements and overage provisions, freehold purchases, conditional ...
Joanna joined ELS from private practice where she was the Head of the Property Department and a partner in a busy private practice. Joanna has over 12 years of experience in dealing with commercial property matters both in the public sector and private practice. Joanna specialises in all commercial property matters to include ...
Emma deals with both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and provides practical advice on a wide range of issues including all aspects of discrimination law; bullying and harassment; redundancies and restructures; equal pay; part time workers; the performance management of employees; managing sickness ...
26th February 2019 (9 – 10.30 am) Chelmsford, Essex The School attendance, requirement and enforcement briefing will provide a foundation of the law and the process schools
The Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 has received Royal Assent. The aim of the Act is to give employed parents the statutory right to two weeks’ paid leave on the d
When conducting a disciplinary hearing there are some key steps that need to be followed to ensure that the process is fair and any subsequent dismissal is not deemed to be unfair.
With the abolition of claimants having to pay fees to bring claims in the Employment Tribunal, employers nationwide have seen a significant increase in claims being lodged. If you
From 6 April 2018 the law relating to the taxation treatment of termination payments is changing. The law remains that any part of a termination payment relating to sums due under
The purpose of this page is to provide some information and resource references to help with questions that may arise in schools and other settings in relation to gender identity i
Here you will find key legislation and legal developments that you need to be aware of in employment law. Please click on the link to download a copy or contact us and we can post
Our highly committed education team, with over 70 years' experience, comprising 65 lawyers who are uniquely placed to work with primary schools, secondary schools and further e
1. For many years, as far back as 1944, it has been an offence for a parent or carer to fail to ensure their child attends regularly at school. The position was more recently set o
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