Tim Farr, formerly Solicitor to the Council and Head of Legal Services at Cambridgeshire County Council, joined the Projects Team at the beginning of September 2008. Tim has 14 years’ experience of providing legal services to the public sector.

Tim began his career at Staffordshire County Council practising education law. At Denbighshire County Council, he added community care and procurement to his specialisms before moving to Cambridgeshire in 1998. 

In his role as Solicitor to the Council, he sponsored and led the commercial work streams of a £700 million waste PFI project, a Local Government Shared Transactional Services project and a Wave 4 Building Schools for the Future project. 

The waste PFI project closed in March 2008 and it has been recognised as a beacon project. Tim led the negotiating team in the shared services project and the first significant milestone was reached on time at the end of February 2008. All deadlines in the BSF Project have been successfully met and Partnerships for Schools has publicly commended the efficiency and quality of the project. 

In addition to this, Tim has continued to advise on community care. He worked on the establishment of a Protection of Vulnerable Adults Safeguarding Board for the County as well as providing advice at individual strategy meetings. He advised on the sale of the majority of County Council owned care homes to a private sector provider. Recent work includes providing advice to the Council on its ‘in-control’ project for individualised budgets and implementing the changes brought in by the Mental Capacity Act 2005. 

On joining Sharpe Pritchard, Tim said "my aim has always been to work towards the delivery of efficient, innovative public services through providing proactive, pragmatic legal advice and first-rate customer care. Sharpe Pritchard shares these goals and with the national reputation of its projects team, I am delighted to be able to contribute to the successful delivery of significant projects up and down the country." 

Head of the projects department Roseanne Serrelli said, "through its inclusion on Catalist and other framework and partnering agreements, the demand for our projects team has never been higher. I am delighted to welcome a lawyer of Tim’s calibre and reputation to the team. I know that Tim shares the Team’s vision and commitment to the highest quality legal services and client care. His appointment will enable us to expand further whilst making no compromises on quality."