"Coleg Morgannwg has engaged with Capital Law to provide us with legal support over the last two years. The support provided has always been of a high standard and has been very responsive to our needs. Sian Davies in particular is an extremely knowledgeable, supportive and competent professional."
Karen Phillips, Deputy Principal, Coleg Morgannwg
Clients include:
- Glyndŵr University
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly UWIC)
- Acorns Nurseries
- Coleg Morgannwg
- Coleg Sir Gar
Our education sector team supports public and private clients across the UK. Further to a competitive pitch process, in April 2010 Capital Law was appointed to the legal services framework by the WFEPC (Welsh Further Education Purchasing Consortium) to supply our full range of legal advice to all Further Education Colleges in Wales. We also work with several leading Higher Education institutions.
We want our advice to complement, not complicate, what you do. So our solutions are always designed with your objectives, culture and people in mind.
Our team is made up of employment law, property, corporate, intellectual property and commercial disputes lawyers as well as consultants specialising in human resources, health and safety and occupational health.
Whether it’s advising on disciplining a member of staff, moving to new premises, merging with other educational establishments, helping recoup money you are owed or teaching your people the skills to become better performers, we work with you, we listen and we deliver.
And with twelve fluent Welsh speakers in our Education sector team, we offer a fully bilingual service.
Specialisms
To see our specialisms within a particular area please click on one of the options below:
- unfair dismissal
- discrimination
- employment tribunal representation
- strategic advice
- contracts and policies
- changing staff terms and conditions
- disciplinary and grievance
- National Care Standards advice
- internal investigations
- transfer of undertakings
- redundancy
- trade union relations
- purchase and development of property
- transfer of land and restrictions
- planning - permissions, appeals and agreements
- development finance
- commercial and residential development
- compulsory purchase and compensation
- land assembly and disposal
- asset purchases
- commercial contracts
- mergers and acquisitions
- international transactions
- management buy outs and buy ins
- changing organisational structures
- group re-organisations
- venture capital and equity investments
- insolvency
- joint ventures
- copyright
- trade marks
- patent registration and infringement
- domain name disputes
- anti-counterfeiting
- protecting confidential information
- licensing and assignment of rights
- group structures
- ownership and licensing disputes
- IP strategies
- contractual disputes
- intellectual property issues
- defamation
- data protection
- governance
- debt recovery
- student body issues
- demotion or suspension orders
- breach of restrictive covenants
- building disputes
- injunctions
- landlord and tenant disputes
- professional negligence claims
- insolvency
- directors’ disqualification
- planning and highway issues
- shareholder disputes
- mediation and alternative dispute resolution
On and off-site HR support as and when you need it.
- disciplinary and grievance investigations and hearings
- strategic advice
- change management programmes
- management training
- HR policies and procedures
- redundancy processes
- stress risk assessment
- employment contracts and policies
- absence management and return to work processes
- practical instruction, training, and/or coaching
- independent auditing of HR function
- employee satisfaction surveys
- HR improvement strategies including:
- grievances
- redundancy
- pensions
- absence management
- return to work
- succession planning
- performance appraisal
- recruitment and outplacement services
- employment law
- mock employment tribunals
- understanding different generational styles
- disciplinary and grievance
- absence management
- leadership
- interviewee skills
- interviewing skills
- company law
- disability discrimination
- return to work interviews
- appraisals
- bespoke courses
Snapshot of our experience
- Supporting FE colleges through merger process
- Defamation case involving a UK university’s research projects
- Advising on intellectual property issues involving inventions and research
- Advising on student body issues including governance and admissions policies
- Injunction against and removal of students for harassment of staff
- Recovery of unpaid school fees
- Internal grievance investigation for a UK university
