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Technology

Technology continues to develop at a rapid pace in today’s market and is key to enabling business transformation and efficiency. This pace of development can provide major benefits to how businesses, central governmentlocal governmentblue light organisations and the health sector operate, but also often brings with it potential challenges to overcome such as security, intellectual property, and data protection issues.

Our solicitors advise organisations across the public, private and third sectors on a wide range of major and complex technology projects.

Our team advises on digital transformation projects, managed IT service contracts, telecommunications projects, hardware purchasing, software licensing, support and maintenance contracts, enterprise resource planning systems, SaaS and other cloud solutions, including the use of the G-Cloud Framework.

We also advise on innovative technologies including the use of automation, and artificial intelligence.

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Work highlights

  • Smart Towns: advising a local authority on their smart towns project.
  • Ed-Tech: advising an ed-tech company on their education learning platform and agreements with relevant institutions.
  • Ministry of Justice: Technology Transformation Programme.
  • Cheshire East Borough Council: Enterprise Resourcing Planning IT System.
  • Network services: advising a local authority on establishing a framework for wide area network services and procuring the framework supplier.
  • Advising a number of local authorities on the use of the G-Cloud Framework and other CCS Frameworks for the procurement of technology.
Juli Lau, Helen Arthur and Shyann Sheehy look into the new Commercial Payments Bill and what it means for both public authorities and larger contractors. As referred to in our article on the implications of the King’s Speech 2026 for the construction sector, the government has announced new legislation which intends to improve commercial payment... Read more
Laura Campbell, Senior Associate in our Construction team, attended the Warm and Safe Homes Summit hosted by Inside Housing, which brought together over 500 attendees from housing providers, local authorities and sector leaders. The agenda reflected continued sector priorities including safer and more energy-efficient homes while balancing building safety, decarbonisation and tenant wellbeing. As ever,... Read more

The High Court’s Judgment in Millbrook Healthcare Limited v Devon County Council [2025] EWHC 744 (TCC) contains useful lessons in relation to interim relief in procurement claims. The Court’s ruling in Millbrook confirms that the “sufficiently serious” test for Francovich damages is irrelevant to the question (at the interlocutory stage of the proceedings) of whether damages…

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