Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team.

• 87 - Procurement (PDF, 1.3 Mb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team - revised May 2020

• 31 - Section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 (PDF, 1.3 Mb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team - incorporating the arrangements following Ledbury. To be considered in conjunction with templates for Grievance policy and Disciplinary policy - both available on this website

• 22 - Disciplinary and Grievance Arrangements - November 2019 (PDF, 4 Mb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 45 - Disposal and appropriation of land by local councils (PDF, 91 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 38 - Data Protection - amended December 2018 (PDF, 3 Mb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team -

• 05 - Parish and Community Council meetings (PDF, 180 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 02 - The Chairman of Local Councils (PDF, 96 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 01 - Councils Powers to discharge their functions 2018 (PDF, 134 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 82 - Compulsory Purchase Orders (PDF, 120 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 70 - The Local Environment (PDF, 53 Kb)

Updated to include references to the procurement regulations (the Public Contracts Regulations 2015) and to situations where there are insufficient managing trustees for a charity to operate.

• 28 - Basic Charity Law - April 2017 (PDF, 68 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 80 - Members conduct and the registration and disclosure of interests England (PDF, 97 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team revised in February 2017 for format and clarity, some minor typographical errors have also been amended.

• 68 - Negligence (PDF, 54 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team - revised February 2017 in the light of the implementation late last year of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which separates consumer terms where one party is not acting as a business from the previous law which still applies where both parties are acting as businesses – a local council is always acting
as a business.

• 35 - Contracts (PDF, 59 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team - revised January 2017

• 42 - Occupiers Liability (PDF, 68 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 36 - Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (PDF, 48 Kb)

NALC Legal Topic Note 88 - Event Licensing - issued August 2016

• 88 - Event Licensing (PDF, 58 Kb)

Revision August 2016 - Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 59 - The Rights of Local Councils to be Notified of Planning Applications and Decisions Revised August 2016 (PDF, 48 Kb)

Revised LTN October 2016 - Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

• 55 - Adverse possession claims (PDF, 47 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

LTN 14E – Byelaws (England) - latest revision August 2016.

• 14 - Byelaws (PDF, 98 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team - revised September 2016

• 40 - Local Councils' Documents and Records (PDF, 98 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team

Anti-social behaviour covers a wide range of day-to-day incidents from litter and vandalism, to public drunkenness or noisy or abusive neighbours which can cause misery, either to an individual or the wider community. To provide better protection for victims and communities, the government introduced the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 which aims to provide simpler, more effective powers to tackle anti-social behaviour. This LTN looks to the powers within the new Act and its focus on holistic and cohesive partnership working within local communities.

• 69 - ASBOs and Harassment - amended July 2016 (PDF, 62 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team.

Revised June 2016. The changes identify the interaction of Planning Law and Copyright by setting out the circumstances in which a local council can copy and make publicly available plans submitted as part of a planning application. The LTN now also gives the wording which must be attached by a local council to any copies of plans provided to the public or made available on its website.

Note -Revision July 2016 - Following June 2016 revisions we (NALC legal) have had a few questions which show that there remains some lack of clarity about the copying of planning documents. We have therefore rewritten and clarified paragraphs 4 to 8 of the LTN

• 60 - Copies of planning documents (PDF, 35 Kb)

Legal Topic note produced by the National Association of Local Councils Legal Team - updated and simplified June 2016 to take account of audit changes.

• 41 - The Responsibility of Councils as Landowners (PDF, 35 Kb)