“A great team of experts who always pull out all the stops. They are creative thinkers who genuinely understand and care about us and the sector we operate in.”

Joanne Carter, Head of Housing, Newydd Housing Association


Clients include

  • Valleys to Coast Housing Limited
  • Newydd Housing Association (1974) Limited
  • Grwp Gwalia Cyf
  • Hendre Group

Our team of Housing Association specialists are drawn together from across the firm. This means that our clients get the support they need in the key commercial areas.

From property and corporate advice to dispute resolution, employment law and people issues, our lawyers and consultants are industry experts offering the complete package.

So we can take care of your legal needs, under one roof. And with twelve fluent Welsh speakers in our team, we offer a fully bilingual service.

Specialisms

To see our specialisms within a particular area please click on one of the options below:

  • purchase and development of property
  • transfer of land and restrictions
  • strategic land disposals
  • auction sales
  • Housing Acts advice
  • planning permissions and appeals
  • planning agreements
  • landlord and tenant issues
  • Leasehold Reform Act
  • enfranchisement
  • governance and regulation
  • development finance
  • commercial and residential development
  • compulsory purchase and compensation
  • land assembly and disposal
  • right to buy/right to acquire
  • drafting lease and transfer documents
  • leasehold management issues
  • restrictive covenants
  • s106 agreements
  • s9 consents
  • acquisition of shared ownership leases
  • property management
  • unfair dismissal
  • discrimination
  • employment tribunal representation
  • strategic advice
  • contracts and policies
  • changing staff terms and conditions
  • disciplinary and grievance
  • internal investigations
  • transfer of undertakings
  • redundancy
  • finance raising
  • 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 - to fit your brand and budget
  • debt recovery
  • possession cases
  • data protection
  • anti-social behaviour injunctions and ASBOs
  • defamation
  • demotion or suspension orders
  • breach of contract/restrictive covenant
  • building disputes
  • rent review disputes
  • planning and highways issues
  • rent recovery
  • breach of restrictive covenants
  • injunctions
  • enforcement of judgments
  • intellectual property and information technology
  • landlord and tenant disputes
  • planning issues
  • insolvency
  • professional negligence claims
  • directors’ disqualification
  • 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 and return to work
  • leadership
  • interviewee skills
  • interviewing skills
  • company law
  • disability discrimination
  • return to work interviews
  • appraisals
  • health and safety
  • corporate manslaughter
  • human factors (behavioural)
  • working at height awareness
  • noise awareness training
  • manual handling
  • stress awareness and management
  • occupational health
  • bespoke courses


Snapshot of our experience

  • Sale of a housing association’s flats for older residents, including setting up letting schemes and handling the onward sales
  • Advising on termination of employment and negotiating compromise agreements
  • Establishing a Works Council and union de-recognition
  • A court application to preserve three 99 year leases, where the landlord was unknown
  • Working with a business governed by POVA and CCSIW

As a matter of fact……

One of our senior property lawyers, Iorwen Brooks-Jones, is a guest lecturer at University of Wales Institute Cardiff as part of the BSc course in Housing/Supported Housing.

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Helen Thomas
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Iorwen Brooks-Jones
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