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Business, Innovation & Skills
The Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills (BIS) is building a dynamic and competitive economy by:
• Creating the conditions for
business success
• Promoting innovation, enterprise and science
• Giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed
Growth is the Government’s top priority and every part of Government
is focused on it. Almost everything that BIS does – from investing
in skills to making markets more dynamic and reducing regulation, and
from promoting trade to boosting innovation and helping people start and
grow a business – helps drive growth.
Fighting Crime. Making Law. Defending
Rights.
Work of the Legal Team
BIS Legal Services has two primary functions:
Providing the department and parts of the wider BIS family with business
critical legal advice on the development and delivery of a broad and varied
range of policies and projects (Legal advisory teams also take Bills through
Parliament, draft statutory instruments and are involved in negotiating
and implementing EU obligations)
The effective enforcement of legislation
for which the Secretary of State is responsible, through the investigation
of breaches of the law (including fraud coming from personal and corporate
insolvency as well as other areas such as employment agencies and end-of-life
vehicles) and prosecution before the criminal courts, to protect creditors
and consumers
The work is intellectually demanding and involves a broad range of Government
legal skills:
• drafting statutory instruments and other legal documents
• advising on the interpretation of existing legislation
• instructing Parliamentary Counsel on new primary legislation
• advising on the implementation of EC law
• taking part in international negotiations especially on EC matters
• investigating and prosecuting companies and individuals.
From the Department that
brought you advice on Libya sanctions, tuition fees, parental leave and
the Space Agency
Lawyers in the advisory teams in the Legal Services Group advise BIS Ministers
and officials on English, EC and international law on the Department's
work. This involves a wide range of subject areas including companies;
competition, monopolies and mergers; consumer protection; employment relations,
discrimination and equality; export control; higher and further education;
information law; insolvency; intellectual property; post, telecommunications
and e-commerce; procurement and contracts; science and innovation; state
Aids, national and regional industrial assistance
Fraud affects us all. It
cost £30billion in the UK in 2007. £30 billion is around five
times more than the combined cost of burglary, theft and robbery.
Lawyers on the enforcement side are responsible for advising on the exercise
of the Secretary of State’s powers of investigation under the Companies
Acts, and for investigating and prosecuting offences on behalf of the
Secretary of State under the Insolvency and Companies regimes, including
bankruptcy offences and fraudulent trading.
Current focal issues:
- the major ‘Operation Barber’ prosecution case
- working very closely with the Insolvency Service on a number of joint
Enforcement Innovation Projects to find smarter ways of working
- more proactive intelligence sharing with the newly created National
Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
- preparing a number of Bills for the next session of Parliament
- rising to the deregulatory Red Tape Challenge
Vacancies
Qualified lawyer vacancies are advertised through the central GLS scheme.
All vacancies are posted on the Civil
Service Recruitment Gateway (this link will open in a new window).
Legal Trainees and Pupil Barristers are recruited through the GLS
Legal Trainee Scheme.
Further Information
You can visit the BIS website – http://www.bis.gov.uk.
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