Lawyer

Gambling Commission; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service pension

Hybrid with Birmingham office

Leave entitlement 26–29 days

Job summary

The Gambling Commission is expanding its Legal team and seeks a lawyer to provide practical, solution-focused advice across a broad range of complex matters. You will support regulatory and criminal objectives, working with colleagues across the organisation to ensure gambling is fair, safe and free from crime.

Based in Birmingham with hybrid working, you will handle an exciting caseload spanning gambling law, regulatory and licensing matters, and administrative/public law, while engaging with

Qualifications

• Qualified as a Solicitor with a current practising certificate, or a Chartered Legal Executive (CILEX Fellow) with advocacy rights in criminal law.
• 2+ years PQE or equivalent experience.
• Experience advising on regulatory and public law matters, including statutory powers and public law challenges.
• Experience progressing criminal investigations and prosecutions with enforcement powers (PACE/CPIA).
• Cross-agency working and stakeholder management with law enforcement and regulators.
• Ability to manage a varied caseload with appropriate supervision when required.
• Strong analytical and judgement skills with clear, practical legal advice.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Providing clear, practical and solution-focused legal advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Advising on regulatory and criminal investigations and prosecutions, including evidential analysis and disclosure management.
• Assisting senior lawyers on complex or sensitive cases, including pre-action and litigation matters.
• Building effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Legal drafting

Regulatory law

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Solicitor with practising certificate

CILEX Fellow with litigation rights

Job description

Working Pattern: Full-time with flexible hybrid working arrangements. You will be expected to attend the office and travel to court as required to meet business needs.

Are you a legal professional looking for a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving sector?

The Gambling Commission is expanding its Legal team and is seeking a lawyer to provide practical, solution-focused advice across a diverse range of complex and high-profile matters. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you will play a key role in supporting the Commission’s regulatory and criminal objectives and helping to ensure that gambling is fair, safe and free from crime. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a multi-billion-pound industry, tackling issues of significant public interest and real societal impact.

Our offer to you

• Market-leading Civil Service pension with a 28.97% employer contribution rate.


• Our central Birmingham city centre office is just a stone's throw from New Street train station, with convenient hybrid working arrangements.


• 26 days’ annual leave, increasing to 29 days after 2 years, with an option to buy up to 5 additional days.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing clear, practical and solution-focused legal advice to internal and external stakeholders.


• Advising upon regulatory and criminal investigations and prosecutions, including evidential analysis, the use of enforcement powers, advice upon charge, and disclosure management.


• Assisting senior lawyers on complex or sensitive cases, including complex pre-action and litigation matters.


• Building effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

This unique role offers exposure to a broad range of high-profile legal issues and the opportunity to make a tangible impact in a challenging and evolving regulatory environment.

You will handle an exciting and varied caseload covering:

• Gambling law.


• Criminal investigations and prosecutions.


• Regulatory and licensing matters.


• Administrative and public law, including litigation and judicial reviews.


• Contract and procurement law.


• Freedom of information, data protection, and GDPR matters.

You'll have a direct impact on high-stakes decisions, attend key meetings in an advisory capacity, and deliver legal advice that drives real-world results.

About you

• Qualified as a Solicitor with a current practising certificate, or a Chartered Legal Executive (CILEX Fellow with litigation rights) with, or in the process of obtaining, advocacy and litigation rights in criminal law.


• 2+ years PQE or equivalent experience.


• Experience of advising on regulatory and public law matters, including the interpretation and application of statutory powers, public law principles, and regulatory frameworks. This must include advising on regulatory decision-making, pre-action correspondence, judicial review risk, and other public law challenges, and escalating issues appropriately to senior colleagues.


• Demonstrable experience of advising on, progressing criminal investigations and prosecutions, including investigating and prosecuting authorities on the use of enforcement powers, including warrants, search and seizure, and production orders, together with a strong working knowledge of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), and the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (CPIA).


• Experience of cross-agency working and stakeholder management, with an ability to build and maintain effective relationships with law enforcement agencies, regulators, public bodies and other key stakeholders.


• Demonstrable ability to manage a varied caseload across a range of legal disciplines, including some complex matters, with appropriate supervision when required.


• Strong intellectual and analytical skills, with the ability to identify legal and regulatory risks, exercise sound judgement and provide clear, practical and solution-focused legal advice.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence, build credibility and develop effective working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.

The closing date for this role is 11:59pm on 25 October 2026.

This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain SC level security clearance.