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Property Chamber (First-tier Tribunal)- Southern Judges Careers Event

Event date: 25 April @5:15pm-6:30pm

25th April 2024 5.15pm – 6.30pm

by remote video-link or in person at Havant Justice Centre PO9 2AL

New Recruitment Spring/Summer 2024

• We are recruiting salaried Judges across 4 of our regions in May 2024.

• We also anticipate a fee paid Judges competition launching around the same period.

All competitions are run by the Judicial Appointments Commission.

Our Work and Our Judges

We handle applications and appeals relating to a wide, and widening, range of residential property disputes, including:

Leasehold management- e.g. service charges, breach of covenant, appointment of managers
Enfranchisement disputes; Rent assessment cases; Park Homes disputes
Housing Act 2004 and Housing and Planning Act 2016 appeals and applications
Building Safety Act 2022 applications; Telecommunications Code and related

We have a relatively small team of salaried Judges, hearing cases and dealing with various other matters. Equally, many cases are heard by fee paid Judges. Our Judges usually sit with other specialist members and throughout the region. We are particularly interested in encouraging applications from women, people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We would also welcome applications from Chartered Legal Executives to broaden our professional base.

The Event

Given the size of the region, we anticipate attendance will predominantly be remote, but you are welcome to attend the regional office in person. You will hear from David Whitney (Regional Judge), Jonathan Dobson (Deputy RJ) and Regional Surveyor Johanna Coupe, recently appointed through the JAC process. We will be joined by Yesim Sharp, Selection Exercise Manager at the Judicial Appointments Commission. They will talk you through their roles, the Tribunal’s work and tips to successfully navigate the application process. We will then allow plenty of time for questions.

If you would like to attend please contact Nicola.Paterson@Justice.gov.uk as soon as possible (and in any event by 19th April 2024). Please provide your name, practice background and whether you intend to come in person or would like a link to join remotely. It would help if you could indicate where you are based geographically. We look forward to meeting you!

Burges Salmon has been an enthusiastic supporter of BLS for many years. BLS provides a valuable role in uniting and promoting the whole of the legal sector across Bristol to benefit both its members and the city. It facilitates collaboration across the sector to ensure that we can all make a difference. Whether that is driving important initiatives in, for example, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the use of new technologies, liaising with stakeholders and charities in our wider community or providing training to generations of lawyers, the service and support provided by BLS is invaluable. More recently BLS has taken a lead on promoting Bristol’s legal brand, encouraging legal and business services talent to come to the city, which in turn attracts clients and inward investment to our thriving and vibrant commercial community. BLS breaks down barriers and brings those in the profession together for the greater good. We are proud of our long-standing association with BLS.
Roger Bull - Managing Partner, Burges Salmon
Three things to say about my experience of working with Bristol Law Society. Their central team, council members and general hangers-on are just about the nicest, most generous group of people working in the legal sector today. The numerous events, awards, socials and conferences I’ve had the pleasure to attend over the years have been, without exception, top quality and supremely organised. And, thirdly, they consistently exceed and challenge the boundaries of what lawyers might assume a regional Law Society will restrict activities to – from a hugely successful charitable school meals drive to corporate social responsibility and diversity campaigns to being joint architects and coordinators of the region’s unique Bristol+BathLegalTech group, which it has been my privilege to co-chair for the last five years.
Chris Bull - Principal, Edge International
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Matthew Baker - Financial Lines Group, Howden Insurance Brokers Ltd
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Nicholas Lee- Managing Director of Paragon Costs Solutions and Past President of BLS