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David Leach

David is a public sector specialist. He has substantial experience working across all aspects of employment law for a wide variety of local government and public sector partners, including the police and educational establishments.

David applies his experience as an in-house lawyer to all his client relationships. He takes a collaborative approach to understanding his clients’ values and their drivers and needs and secondly the environment they are operating in creating solutions and fair and balanced outcomes for all.

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ABOUT SHARPE PRITCHARD

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We are a national firm of public law specialists, serving local authorities, other public sector organisations and registered social landlords, as well as commercial clients and the third sector.

Our team advises on a wide range of public law matters, spanning electoral law, procurement, construction, infrastructure, data protection and information law, planning and dispute resolution, to name a few key specialisms.

All public sector organisations have a route to instruct us through the various frameworks we are appointed to. To find out more about our services, please click here.

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OUR RECENT ARTICLES

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July 22, 2026

Judicial review of Local Government Reorganisation

As the government pushes ahead with the biggest overhaul of local government in a generation, a growing list of councils, including Essex, Norfolk, Hampshire and Suffolk, are testing whether the courts will intervene. Our experts, Simon Kiely, Olivia Peake and Oliver Dickie go…
July 17, 2026

NEC Annual Conference 2026: Practical Reflections

Rachel Murray-Smith, Jane Crees and Helen Batter share the details of the NEC Annual Conference 2026. The NEC Annual Conference 2026, themed “Scaling Excellence in a New Age of Delivery”, brought together public sector clients, project leaders and industry specialists to discuss…
July 17, 2026

The ERA – Discrimination Webinar

Julie Bann and Christian Grierson host a pre-recorded webinar on reforms relating to discrimination and workplace equality.
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Rachel Murray-Smith

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Simon Kiely

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