Decision details
Formation of a Company for Legal Services
Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decision:
(1) approves the Articles of Association, as detailed at Appendix A and Shareholders Agreement attached at Appendix B to the report, as the constitution and legal documentation relating to the establishment of a company wholly owned by the County Council with the object of the company being licensed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for the purpose of providing legal advice and services;
(2) appoints David Coleman Chief Legal Officer; Andrew Crookham, Executive Director - Resources and James Drury, Executive Director - Commercial as Directors of the company;
(3) appoints Councillor B Young, Executive Councillor for Community Safety and People Management, as the member representative of the company and delegates to Councillor B Young, authority to take decisions in exercise of the Council's powers in relation to the company;
(4) approves the making available of a cash flow facility of £30,000 to the company; and
(5) delegates to the Chief Legal Officer, in consultation with the Executive Councillor for Community Safety and People Management, authority to take all necessary procedural steps to establish the company to include amendments to the documentation to the extent necessary to meet Solicitors Regulation Authority requirements and to determine the final terms and the entering into of the cash flow facility.
Report author: David Coleman
Publication date: 07/01/2020
Date of decision: 07/01/2020
Decided at meeting: 07/01/2020 - Executive
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