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About the Role
Croydon Council is seeking an experienced and motivated Housing Litigation Lawyer to join its Housing and Litigation Legal Team. This role offers an excellent opportunity to manage a varied and challenging caseload, providing high-quality legal advice and representation on a wide range of housing litigation matters.
Responsibilities
- Manage a full spectrum of housing litigation work, including possession proceedings, housing disrepair claims, injunction applications and enforcement, homelessness matters, unauthorised occupation and trespass cases, and tenancy management and tenancy fraud issues.
- Provide strategic housing law advice to client departments.
- Conduct litigation from inception to conclusion.
- Advise officers and senior stakeholders.
- Draft legal documentation.
- Instruct counsel where required.
- Represent the organisation in court and tribunals.
Requirements
- Qualified Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX Lawyer.
- Substantial experience in housing litigation.
- Strong working knowledge of housing and public law.
- Excellent advocacy, drafting, and case management skills.
- Ability to provide practical, solution-focused legal advice in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Housing litigation
- Housing law
- Public law
- Advocacy
- Drafting
- Case management
- Legal advice
Location
- Croydon
Work Type
- Permanent
- 36 hours per week
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working
- Remote working
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Qualified Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX Lawyer
Salary/Compensations
- £46,968 - £62,766 pa.
Benefits
- Fantastic benefits
About the Company
- Croydon is London's second largest borough - full of brilliant and diverse people, businesses, and places.
- The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services.
- Croydon Council’s priorities include getting a grip on finances, becoming a council that listens to and works in partnership with diverse communities, strengthening collaboration with partners, embedding good governance, and developing the workforce.
- Key business plan outcomes include making Croydon a place of opportunity, ensuring children and young people can thrive, making Croydon a cleaner, safer, and healthier place, enabling people to lead healthier and independent lives for longer, and implementing new ways of working.
Equal Opportunity
- Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
- Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
- As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
- Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
- The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.