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Lawyer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Gambling Commission
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Birmingham, West Midlands (with hybrid working)
The Gambling Commission is the gambling regulator for GB, regulating a key social industry in the public interest.
This is a fascinating time to be joining the Commission, with a new 3-year strategy having been published setting out a significant, cross-jurisdictional regulatory agenda in its new strategic objectives.
We have an exciting opportunity for a lawyer to join our dynamic legal team, working on key regulatory initiatives as the Commission delivers its strategic objectives, including delivering the outputs of the Gambling Act Review White Paper.
As a key part of our in-house team, you will be providing high-quality, solution-focused legal advice across the Commission's remit.
The Benefits
Joining us means being part of an organisation that is certified as a Great Place to Work, respects work-life balance, is inclusive, and provides great training and support to help you develop.
The work is fast paced and challenging, and the role sits within a close-knit, friendly and supportive legal team where members are encouraged to take on opportunities to challenge themselves.
Your Role
As a lawyer, you will provide advice to the Commission across its powers and functions, requiring creativity and innovation in advising on the options in the development of regulatory policy and finding available routes to help the Commission to be more effective.
You will handle a complex and varied workload with a key focus on general public law, including other areas such as gambling law, licensing, prosecutions, employment law and much more.
In particular, your role will involve:
About You:
There is an expectation that you will have a minimum of a 2.1 honours degree in your first degree (or its overseas equivalent) or evidence of high-level academic and/or professional achievement.
You must be qualified to practice as a Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive in England and Wales, and you will have completed a training contract/pupillage/qualifying employment or have been exempted from this by the Law Society, the Bar Council or CILEx.
Chartered Legal Executives are eligible to apply where a qualifying law degree is held or the Graduate Diploma in Law has been completed, or where CILEx Level 6 exams have been passed at 50% or above in Contract Law, Criminal Law, Equity and Trusts Law, European Union Law, Land Law, Public Law and the Law of Tort.
About Us
Set up under the Gambling Act , the Gambling Commission is committed to enabling safe gambling and safeguarding the public from detrimental impacts brought about by gambling.
We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly.
We work within across legal and professional bodies and across disciplines in the public health system, with local authorities and with community and trade groups to better understand how we can regulate effectively in the public interest.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and developing our People.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds into the Commission and don't just say it, but live it – through groups like Pride Network, Menopause Matters, Wellbeing and Mental Health.
The Commission is proud to have been accredited as a 'Great Place to Work' in and .If this sounds like a place you would like to be, then we would be delighted to hear from you
The Process:
You should provide a statement of suitability along with your full employment history, and account for any gap in employment within the last two years.
You should complete the application process focusing on how you meet each of the criteria set out in the About You section above.
Applicants sifted in for interview may be asked to prepare a short presentation to deliver at the interview, the details of which will be provided in advance of the interview.
Candidates sifted in for an interview may also be asked to complete an exercise under timed conditions focused on understanding legal technical ability.
The closing date for this role is Friday 31st May .
PLEASE NOTE:
ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visas at this time.
Incomplete applications will be discounted from shortlisting. Please ensure your application is fully completed and submitted before logging out of your account.
We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the number of responses received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure it is considered in the selection process.
As the regulator of the National Lottery, there are some roles within the Commission that are prohibited from playing the National Lottery.
This does not affect your family playing.We will let you know at the interview if the role you have applied for is on the Prohibited List.
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