D2/Grade 7, Criminal Lawyer, Nationwide
| Posting date: | 03 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £51,518 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51,518 to £58,828 (National) and £53,400 to £61,588 (London). Please note that negotiations for the Insolvency Service 2023 Pay Award are still ongoing. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2024 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 352348/10 |
Summary
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) introduced reforms intended to promote greater integrity and transparency around the Companies House register. To support the reforms several new offences have been introduced which the Insolvency Service will have a key role in investigating and prosecuting.
The Criminal Team currently prosecutes a wide range of offences concerned with insolvency related crime and corporate misconduct. The team also provides operational advice across the agency with particular focus on criminal and statutory investigations.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career. Legal Services consists of approximately 82 staff who make up our Criminal, Civil Enforcement Teams and a Paralegal Team. We provide legal services to the Service that includes advisory work and conducting criminal and civil litigation.
The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include LGBT+, FACES, Disability & Health, Break the Stigma, Women’s, The Shed, Carers, Part Time Workers, No Limits and Grass Roots.
We offer flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The role involves prosecuting a wide range of offences across England and Wales, concerned with insolvency related crime and corporate misconduct. We are looking for intellectually capable, highly motivated criminal lawyers with powerful communication skills. You need to have sound judgment and good analytical skills and a commitment to using feedback to learn and develop as a professional.
Responsibilities
Upon joining the team, you will become part of the Government Legal Profession and a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities will be:
- To manage a caseload of varying complexity from the decision whether to prosecute through to trial and sentence
- To give clear, accurate and timely advice where required on the conduct of criminal investigations
- To instruct Counsel or agent solicitors where appropriate
- To build effective working relationships with colleagues involved in the Services enforcement work, particularly with our investigators to develop and pursue focused case strategies
- To work on cross-Whitehall initiatives as part of the Government Legal Profession,
- To contribute to knowledge management and sharing best practice
- To deliver training across the Service and potential to supervise paralegals undertaking CILEx
- To attend court and undertake advocacy in the Magistrates Court as appropriate
- To travel to senior leader conferences and other regional centres as and when require