Licensing/Regulatory Solicitor/Barrister
Contract type: full time, permanent. 37 hours per week. Salary range: £52,413 - £56,730.
What The Role Offers You
- Opportunity to manage your own varied caseload including licensing.
- Support colleagues when required.
- Work with minimal supervision.
- Undertake technical and complex research requiring advanced interpretation and analytical skills, partnership working with colleagues and clients.
- Active involvement in client care and business development.
Responsibilities
- Handling a licensing caseload from start to finish (private hire, taxi licences and premises; advising and advocacy in internal mini‑committees, full committees, and courts).
- Private hire taxi appeal hearings.
- Drafting summons, indictments, case summaries and disclosure requests.
- Attending Magistrates’ Court, committees and meetings including dealing with Court lists.
- Conducting litigation for client departments covering civil, regulatory crime and public law.
- Work with and advise elected members on the full range of practice areas and on standards issues.
Qualifications and Experience
- Advocacy experience and skills in all tiers of court, willingness to undertake advocacy.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, negotiation, drafting, persuasion and influencing.
- Ability to command respect, trust and confidence from clients, senior managers and court.
- Flexibility to assist other team members.
- Work confidently alone or within a team.
- Desire to develop legal skills to achieve technical excellence.
- Willingness to take on challenges, solve problems and provide practical solutions.
- Strong working relationships with client departments.
- Organised with attention to detail.
- Practical and commercial approach.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with pay progression through multiple increments.
- Flexible working, including hybrid; two days office attendance per week.
- Generous annual leave, starting at 26 days rising to 35 days (plus bank holidays).
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Free parking at multiple sites across the City.
- Wellbeing and lifestyle savings through benefits app.
EEO Statement
We are committed to building a workforce that is reflective of the diverse community we serve and to providing equal opportunities. Applications from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups are encouraged.
Contact
For an informal chat, contact Adam Sheen at 01902 554926 or Mushtaq Ahmed‑Khan at 01902 554973.
Closing Date
10 May 2026
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