Sussex consortium unveils panel appointments
The full list of 28 law firms and 22 barristers’ chambers to have been selected – together with Kent County Council Legal Services – for a legal services framework set up by a consortium of local authorities in Sussex has been revealed this week.
The Sussex Consortium Legal Services involves 16 authorities in East and West Sussex, including the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Authority, and is expected to save just under half a million pounds a year. The total expenditure of the participating authorities in 2007/8 is understood to have been in the region of £3-3.5m.
The Sussex framework is the latest in a string of panel announcements revealed this year, following in the heels of the North West Legal Consortium, EM Lawshare and a consortium of all the local authorities in Surrey.
The selection was based on the most economically advantageous tender in terms of price and quality. The two criteria were given equal weighting.
The successful barristers’ chambers were:
- 1 KBW
- 11 KBW
- 12 College Place
- 2-3 Gray’s Inn Square
- 39 Essex Street
- 4 Brick Court
- 42 Bedford Row
- Arden Chambers
- 12 King’s Bench Walk
- Lamb Building
- 6 Pump Court
- Cloisters Chambers
- College Chambers
- One Crown Office Row
- 2 Dyers Buildings
- Family Law Chambers
- Francis Taylor Building
- Hardwicke Building
- Landmark Chambers
- Old Square Chambers
- Pallant Chambers
- Radcliffe Chambers
The successful law firms were:
- ASB Law
- Ashfords
- Beachcroft
- Bennett Griffin
- Berrymans Lace Mawer
- Bevan Brittan
- Blake Lapthorn
- Bunkers
- Davitt Jones Bould
- DMH Stallard
- DWF
- Eversheds
- Hammonds
- Hardwicke Building
- James Button & Co
- Leonie Cowen & Associates
- M&A Solicitors
- Moon Beever
- Parabis Law
- Paris Smith
- Pinsent Masons
- Rix & Kay
- Sharpe Pritchard
- Shoosmiths
- Spencer Howard
- Steeles
- Thomas Eggar
- Weightmans