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Kent in-housers seek to cut £3m of legal costs by 2014

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Like many others, I harbour doubts about how Kent County Council's offer of external legal services complies with the EC rules on state aids. In this article it is clear that the same workforce is providing both the internal and external legal work. The problem with that approach, as cases like Hofner demonstrate, is that the council is operating within a market (the provision of legal services) whilst using public money. That the profits are recycled is irrelevant. I'm sure that the council is acting in a compliant manner, but its far from obvious exactly how they are managing that .

Posted date

26-Apr-2012

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9:24 am

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