Continued growth for Birketts’ Administrative and Public Law Disputes Team

UK Top 50 Law Firm, Birketts, has welcomed Senior Associate Naomi Westcott to its Administrative and Public Law Disputes Team.  

As part of the team’s continued growth, Naomi, who has over 11 years’ experience, joined Birketts in September 2023. Naomi, who was recognised as a Rising Star in the 2024 Legal 500, joined the firm from Mischon de Reya, having previously worked for Birketts between 2014 and 2019. 

On her return to Birketts Naomi said: “It is great to be back, and I am delighted to join such a great team of experts and work across such an interesting array of cases and issues”.  

Naomi and the team advise many schools and universities in education dispute management and student issues. They also lead the firm’s procurement disputes and judicial review work. Naomi has continued her proven track record in successfully running complex and high value litigation, and she and the team at Birketts, have already been successful in the High Court in an interim application on an ongoing procurement dispute worth £260m.  

Sara Sayer, Partner and Head of Administrative and Public Law Disputes added:  

“We are delighted to welcome Naomi back into the Birketts fold. Naomi is a tremendous asset to this team, hard-working, friendly and caring. Naomi is already advising many of our schools, academy and university clients on various education issues. Within her first week she rolled her sleeves up and was at Court on a procurement injunction in Birmingham and is now leading on a quarter billion-pound procurement dispute.” 

Naomi is based in Birketts’ Cambridge office but works across all of Birketts’ offices in this specialist work type.  

The Administrative and Public Law Disputes Team advises both public bodies and commercial clients on alleged breaches of public law rights and duties. The team’s main areas of advice include: 

• Procurement disputes 
• Judicial reviews 
• Education disputes and student issues 
• Local Authority disputes and handling persistent and vexatious complainants 
• Equality Act and customer discrimination claims and general complaints handling 
• Care homes and health sector disputes 
• Charity disputes 
• General public law and regulatory contentious issues 

For more information on the services offered by the team, please click here.