South London Legal Partnership (SLLP) is London's first five-borough shared legal service. It works on behalf of the London boroughs of Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton and Wandsworth and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Teams

South London Legal Partnership is divided into five teams:

• Property, Planning and Employment team 
  Provides legal advice in relation to property, planning and employment matters for all Council.
• Procurement and Information Governance Team 
  Provides legal advice and support in relation to procurement and contracts matters for all Council.
• Dispute Resolution and Compliance team 
  Litigates on behalf of all the Councils in the civil and criminal courts.
• Social Care and Education team 
  Provides legal advice and support to adults' and children's social care teams as well as to the education teams for all Councils.
• Practice Management team
  The Practice Management team is responsible for finance and resource management, business support, business process improvement, ISO 9001:2015 accreditation, Facilities Management, IT systems and project management. SLLP charge each partner, and other clients, for the work it undertakes and has a turnover of approximately £11 million per annum.

Service of court proceedings

The SLLP accepts service of court proceedings on behalf of the councils for whom it acts by prior agreement only. Please contact the Head of Law, or Assistant Heads of Law of the appropriate team above if you wish to make arrangements for the service of proceedings.

About us

The aim of the service is to provide more resilient and higher quality legal services than that provided by each authority individually, assuming that future savings will need to be made to the budgets of all local authorities.

The service is ISO 9001:2015 accredited and provides the full remit of local authority legal services to the directorates of all councils as well as advice to councillors, the council, the committees of the councils and to schools in accordance with service level agreements.

SLLP charges each partner, and other clients, for the work it undertakes and has a turnover of approximately £11 million per annum.

Contact us

7th Floor
Merton Civic Centre
London Road
Morden
SM4 5DX

DX:161030
Morden 3

Email: sllp@merton.gov.uk
Telephone: 020 8545 3953