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-Conducting comprehensive legal research and analysis to support complex regulatory projects.-Drafting legally effective documents relating to enforcement and litigation.-Providing clear and actionable legal advice to internal teams and stakeholders.-Collaborating across teams, mentoring colleagues, and fostering a collaborative work environment.-Ensuring compliance with legal obligations and internal processes, maintaining up-to-date legal knowledge through commitment to continuous learning.

London, England, United Kingdom

Within this role I am responsible for providing high quality, pragmatic and solutions-focussed legal advice to the water regulator during the course of regulatory activities. I have advised on and developed my knowledge in an extensive portfolio of areas, primarily advising our non-household, licensing and enforcement teams. Here I have advised on the legality of potential enforcement actions, the introduction of new regulations, IPR, procurement, commercial contracts and price controls. In addition to these advisory functions, I regularly assist in the development of new policies, provide assistance to colleagues in drafting documents for external publication as well as meeting external stakeholders to set out our position on issues, and where necessary working collaboratively to resolve frictions within the sector.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Responsible for the handling of judicial review claims brought by individuals against the Home Office in relation to immigration matters. Ensuring that all cases are progressed effectively and court deadlines are met.In my role representing the defendant in judicial review matters, I assess the lawfulness of decisions and policies under challenge set out against the relevant legislation and case law. Upon arriving at evidence-based decisions as to whether challenges should be defended or conceded, I am skilled concluding legal challenges, including drafting defences, or where an error has occurred, resolving them rapidly in order to minimise legal costs and the harm caused to the claimant.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Managed a caseload of pre-litigated occupational disease claims including Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Repetitive Strain Injuries, Asthma and Occupational Stress & Harassment. Also assisted on litigated files, drafting and filing court documents including defences and disclosure lists and considering settlement offers.I am skilled in arriving at effective liability decisions, based upon complex medical and engineering evidence and by building up a detailed understanding of the law and the chronology of events leading up to the claim, ensuring that cases are processed efficiently and in time with court deadlines.Here I demonstrated competency in meeting my billable targets, whilst also settling cases quickly where it was right to do so, avoiding unnecessary legal costs. I also developed a good understanding of insurance and TUPE regulations in order to fully pursue money recovery opportunities on behalf of clients.

Togo

Delivered an educational programme consisting of English, health and entrepreneurship campaigns in Togo, West Africa.Beneficiaries spanned across all strands of the local community including students, apprentices and prison inmates. Through sharing knowledge on core skills, the aim was to equip young people living within deprived communities the skills to further advance their own careers.I effectively planned and presented sessions to beneficiaries with varying ability levels on topics ranging from 10 week English courses to awareness raising events on themes such as malaria/ family planning. Also conducted and gathered data in a final impact assessment on the project which demonstrated beneficiaries overwhelmingly found the programme helpful and my interpersonal skills were commended by the programme director.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Responded to power emergencies which had developed within consumer’s households on behalf of the major energy suppliers.Here I used my own initiative throughout the process, taking initial calls from customers who had been left without supply, and subsequently arranging for engineers to repair faults.This involved allocating resources according to urgency when at overcapacity and building trust with customers by providing reassurance and ultimately a realistic timeframe for the reparation work to be carried out.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Delivered a positive experience for customers of varying ages and backgrounds within this small family business. Ensured customers are served within a timely manner whilst responding to individual needs/ requests. Other tasks included standard stock rotation/ replenishment as well as age-verification.Was proactive in assisting further by cashing up for the owners whilst on vacation as well as using my IT skills to draft a spreadsheet which automatically calculates net profit to make the process of submitting tax returns easier.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Within this role I was ultimately responsible for improving the store’s sales performance. This involved keeping up to date with trends in order to successfully market products to customers, providing general assistance as well as maintaining the visual appearance of the store.

Bachelor’S Degree, Law, Upper Second Class (2:1)

Llm - Legal Practice And Sqe 1 & 2, Law