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Birmingham and London Canary Wharf locations
Salary competitive
Ref: 33922 (Birmingham), 33921 (London)
Closing date: 2 January 2018
As a Property/Planning Lawyer at HS2, you will provide advice on a range of legal matters with a particular focus on property, planning and compulsory purchase. The role will involve working closely with a number of functions across the organisation as well as external stakeholders.
About the role:
• Provide legal advice on a variety of issues connected with the acquisition of land for the HS2 project including negotiated acquisitions, compulsory purchase acquisition, acquisitions under HS2s discretionary purchase schemes and related compensation issues.
• Handle a case load of a variety of complex property/compulsory purchase matters which in some cases will include drafting and negotiating bespoke agreements.
• Provide legal advice on the management of HS2’s growing property portfolio and land access issues.
• Oversee the provision of legal advice in relation to litigation matters including tribunal and ADR.
• Act as a point of contact between external lawyers and the functions across the business including acting as intelligent client on complex transactions.
• Update and maintain standard form documentation.
• Assist in the preparation of reports and briefings for staff across HS2 including senior management.
• Attend meetings including with senior management as legal representative on property/compulsory purchase issues.
• Research into relevant legislation, case law and procedures.
About You:
• Qualified solicitor with experience in either property or planning/compulsory purchase.
• Experience of providing legal advice to high value construction or infrastructure project.
• Effective problem solving skills including working without established precedent or procedure.
• Effective planning and organisational skills in order to manage a large caseload.
• An understanding of the challenges facing the delivery of a major infrastructure project and the role of the in-house legal function as a key contributor to successful delivery.
• It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
High Speed 2 (HS2) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.