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About the Role

This role is at the heart of a global city, focusing on licensing work for both Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It involves advising Licensing Sub Committees, attending hearings, and handling a diverse and challenging portfolio of licensed premises.

Responsibilities

Advise Licensing Sub Committees across both boroughs as a Legal Adviser on a rota basis, attending hearings in person.
Provide expert, high-level legal, technical, and procedural advice to Members and Officers in relation to a wide range of licensing cases and associated local government legislation.
Act as a Legal Adviser to weekly Licensing Sub-Committees and call-over meetings.
Draft documentation relating to meetings.
Conduct and defend judicial reviews and statutory appeals in relation to licensing and highways matters.
Advise on enforcement matters and expedited reviews.
Undertake a wide range of routine and complex legal cases, some of which will be high profile, politically sensitive and financially weighted.
Draft, advise on, and produce key decisions for senior Council members and committees.
Ensure all procedural and standing order requirements are complied with.
Deal with a range of highways matters, including pavement licence applications and status queries.
Draft and advise on highway notices and stopping up orders.
Work on Assets of Community Value applications and reviews.
Monitor changes in the law as they affect the Licensing and Highways Team.
Make an active contribution to Legal Services’ objective of continuous improvement, innovation and Lexcel accreditation.
Ensure proper records are maintained and work is saved on the case management system.
Keep the team’s database up to date.

Requirements

Experience in advising on applications under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005, including Sexual Entertainment Venues.
Experience in advising Members at Licensing Sub Committee hearings and providing clear, confident legal advice.
Experience in drafting high-quality written advice, summaries, and full decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
Experience in advising on licensing policy.
Experience in conducting licensing appeals in the Magistrates’ Court.
Sound judgement, professionalism, and a commitment to public service.

Skills

Licensing Act 2003
Gambling Act 2005
Sexual Entertainment Venues
Licensing policy
Magistrates’ Court appeals
Judicial reviews
Statutory appeals
Highways matters
Pavement licence applications
Highway notices
Stopping up orders
Assets of Community Value
Case management systems

Location

Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP

Work Type

Permanent
36 hours per week

Experience Level

Salary negotiable depending upon experience

Salary/Compensations

£58,299 - £64,815 per annum

Benefits

Flexible working patterns
Agile working

About the Company

Bi Borough Legal Services | Westminster City Council & Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
At Westminster City Council, our work is full of extraordinary stories. Every day, our lawyers help shape a city known across the world, balancing vibrant night time economies, iconic events, complex developments and the needs of residents and businesses alike.
We work the Westminster Way valuing difference, acting with integrity and taking responsibility for the impact of our work.
We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, and over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in our borough.
Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future.
By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diversity, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.
We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve.
We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way.
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

Equal Opportunity

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.
We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formerly known as BAME, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.
If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.