Education

“Led by the ‘hardworking and personable' Tina Webster, Thomas Eggar LLP advises on FE campus redevelopments, with Totton College, Chichester College, and City College Brighton & Hove among recent clients.” (Legal 500, 2008)

Thomas Eggar LLP has very wide experience of working in the education sector. We act for a large number of universities, colleges, schools and suppliers of services to education establishments. We have advised on a variety of matters from complex capital development projects involving both campus redevelopment and college relocation through to licensing issues for campus premises.

How can we help?

Our education lawyers have, in many instances, a long standing reputation for working in the sector. We have acted for a number of further education colleges since incorporation. The broad range of expertise in the team means we can meet the diverse, and continually changing needs of education establishments. We have drawn upon the firm's strengths in development, construction, property, employment, dispute resolution, commercial law and charity law to provide a comprehensive service for education institutions and those providing services to the sector.

Our education services

Examples of work we have undertaken include advising on:

• EU procurement
• LSC capital projects
• Building contract documents and appointments in relation to redevelopment
• Planning issues
• Property strategies to support capital projects and development proposals
• Site acquisitions for college campuses
• VAT strategies relating to property transactions
• Constitutional and governance matters for colleges and governors
• Funding arrangements for colleges, including secured lending, long and short finance to meet development costs
• Contentious and non-contentious employment issues and providing full support to HR teams
• Charity issues
• Licensing issues
• Commercial and specific property disputes, including landlord and tenant disputes
• Law relating to students and education, including exclusions, suspensions and disciplinary procedures, as well as claims of discrimination and harassment
• All aspects of health and safety investigations and prosecutions.