North West council appoints Ibrahim as Assistant Director

Unlocking legal talent

Jonathan Bourne of Damar Training sets out why in-house council teams and law firms should embrace apprenticeships.

How hair strand testing should be instructed for family court proceedings

For years, FTS, a drug, alcohol and DNA lab in Yorkshire, has been advocating for an end to the use of Society of Hair Testing (SoHT) cut-off levels in the family courts, writes Paul Hackett (Sponsored Editorial)

Webinars

Asif Ibrahim is to rejoin Rochdale Council as Assistant Director – Legal, Governance and Workforce, ahead of the retirement of David Wilcock.

Details: 28.Oct.2020

Topics in this article:

Ibrahim has been Head of Legal and Deputy Monitoring Officer at Cheshire East Council since September 2019.

Prior to that he spent five years at Wigan Council, first as a Childcare Solicitor and then as Strategic Lawyer – People.

He was Associate Solictior at Rochdale between February 2009 and October 2014.

Wilcock is retiring from Rochdale at the end of December 2020, after six years as monitoring officer and more than four years as Assistant Director – Legal, Governance and Workforce.