Jayne Hammond
Director of legal and democratic services
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, North West Legal Consortium (NWLC)
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council is part of the North West Legal Consortium, set up in 2006 as the first combined consortium of barristers and solicitors. Jayne Hammond has served the council for over a decade and currently heads a team of 22 lawyers.
Hammond’s preferred firms are Pannone, DLA Piper, DAC Beachcroft and Weightmans. The quartet were named as partner firms to the NWLC, alongside 31 local firms and 26 barristers’ chambers, to work across a total of 14 barrister panels and 11 legal panels containing over 30 external firms to advise the councils on a wide variety of work.
NWLC has been forced to reduce its legal spend by a third over the last two years due to local government funding cuts, but still regularly instructs the Bar for commercial work.
Law firms used: DAC Beachcroft, DLA Piper, Pannone, Weightmans
2002-present: Director of legal and democratic services, Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, North West Legal Consortium
1992-2002: Assistant director of legal and democratic services, Bury Council, North West Legal Consortium