Associate, Barrister

at  Capsticks Solicitors LLP

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Successful candidates will work within an experienced and expanding team of lawyers, advocates and case progression paralegals. Advocacy experience, including trial/ final hearing advocacy is essential preferably in a professional disciplinary/ fitness to practise context but we will consider candidates who can demonstrate the required skills and experience from other sectors. Full induction training and ongoing support and training will be provided as part of the role.

We are seeking ambitious Associate Barrister to join our Leeds office and to help us build and develop our practice and respond to increasing volumes of work, servicing clients both locally and nationally. In particular, we are looking for advocates to support Leeds based health and social care regulators.
As an advocate within the Regulatory Division you will primarily present cases at final substantive hearing and represent regulators at interim application and case management hearings. This includes presenting the full range of cases taken forward to hearing by professional regulators including those involving dishonesty, fraud, sexual misconduct and serious instances of deficient professional performance. There will be opportunities to work with expert witnesses and to support vulnerable witnesses and those with additional support needs to give best evidence.
There are also opportunities to input into case direction at all stages of the investigation and preparation process. This includes: evidence reviews, allegation drafting, preparing opening notes, case summaries and written applications/ skeleton arguments and advice on all types of legal and evidential issues arising during the course of case preparation and presentation. There are also opportunities to get involved in our broader advisory work with clients, including the use of statutory powers and a wide range of other issues affecting regulators.
Depending on qualification and experience, it is likely that there will opportunities to appear in the High Court and the First Tier Tribunal on appeals from decisions of the regulators. There are also opportunities to work with our clients on continuous improvement projects and scope for involvement in training for panel members and in-house teams.