LBLA Panel Announcement

We are delighted to confirm that 5 Pump Court has been appointed to the London Boroughs’ Legal Alliance Barristers Legal Services Framework, worth an estimated £60m.

The London Borough of Ealing acted as contracting authority on behalf of the other 27 LBLA members, working alongside specialist legal consultancy Kennedy Cater who helped establish the original framework in 2012. The LBLA has continued to grow and now comprises: the London Boroughs of Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, the City of London Corporation, Westminster City Council, and the London Fire Commissioner and Slough Borough Council. The framework will also be available to other local authorities within Greater London and South-East England (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and West Sussex).

Our family team has been a part of the Framework which has been operating over the last 3 years, and has successfully tendered to remain on the panel for public law children work. This reflects the strength and depth of our public law children team which has grown in recent years and now comprises over 30 members, 4 of whom are listed in the Legal 500 for their expertise.

We have also been appointed to the panel for the first time in housing, property and civil litigation work which reflects our growing presence in these areas. We have a number of members who have worked within local authorities and are therefore ideally placed to understand their business. We also work for local authorities and housing associations on a regular basis. Earlier this year Archie Maddan represented the London Borough of Newham in their successful prosecution of Chaplair for failure to remove Grenfell-style cladding from a tower block. Our multi-disciplinary practice means that our members are as comfortable in the magistrates court as the county court or first tier tribunal and we are familiar with the different rules and procedures of each tribunal.

We already run a very successful webinar programme which has seen us present webinars on a range of topics from aspects of civil procedure, to the introduction of the fixed recoverable costs regime to the implications of the Newham v Chaplair judgment over the course of the year. We also held our second annual family law conference in October at the Middle Temple. We look forward to welcoming LBLA members to our webinar and conference programme over the next 3 years.

The existing Barristers Framework expires on 31 December 2023, after which the new framework will run for three years to 31 December 2026 with an option to extend for a further 12 months to 31 December 2027.