Legal Advisor- Information Law

LAW Absolute; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LAW Absolute is seeking a Legal Adviser to cover maternity leave in a regulatory body. The role requires a qualified Solicitor or Barrister to deliver legal advice on information law and other related areas, supporting various projects. A hybrid working model offers flexibility across their UK offices.

Qualifications

• Solicitor or Barrister qualified to practice in England and Wales.
• Knowledge of information law is essential.
• Experience in public sector body preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality legal advice on information law across the Commission.
• Support design and delivery of Commission-wide projects.
• Advise casework team on FOIA requests, SARs, and ICO appeals.

Skills

Information Law

Charity Law

Public Administrative Law

Regulatory Law

Education

Solicitor or Barrister qualified to practice in England and Wales

Job description

An opportunity to join a regulatory body as a Legal Adviser on a temporary basis to cover a maternity leave. This role will be focused on information law. This is a regulatory body who are a non-ministerial government department accountable to Parliament, working across four sites in Liverpool, London, Newport and Taunton. The work is varied, challenging and unique.

As a Legal Adviser, you will be responsible for providing high quality professional legal advice on information law across the Commission. This will include providing information law advice to support the design and delivery of Commission-wide projects, as well as advising and developing the casework team responding to FOIA requests, SARs and ICO appeals.

To be considered for the role, you must be a Solicitor or Barrister qualified to practice in England and Wales and have knowledge of information law. Candidates should have worked in a similar public sector body and ideally have additional experience of charity law, public administrative law and regulatory law. As this is a temporary role candidates must be available to start work at short notice.

On offer is a hybrid working week with two days a week in the office, this can be based from any other their UK offices – London, Liverpool or Newport. The successful candidate will receive a day rate starting at £237.55 + £34.54 holiday pay (PAYE) or £322.42 per day (Umbrella). Candidates must be available to start at short notice.

Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

At LAW Absolute we endeavour to respond to all applications within 48 hours. However due to the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to every candidate individually.

If you have not heard from us within a 48 hour timeframe your application has not been successful and your details have not been retained. LAW Absolute acts as an employment business for temporary recruitment and as an employment agency for fixed term contract and permanent recruitment.