Tessa is a Knowledge Lawyer for the UK Projects team at Osborne Clarke.
As one of our Knowledge Lawyers, Tessa has a focus on ensuring technical excellence by keeping the team up-to-date on new legal and market developments, creating and maintaining precedent documents, assisting team members with technical legal queries and providing training on law and practice.
Tessa qualified as a solicitor in 2015 following completion of her training contract at Osborne Clarke.
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Energy and Utilities
Energy Security Bill proposed in Queen's Speech
The UK government has proposed new legislation intended to ensure the security and decarbonisation of the UK's energy supply
12/05/2022
Decarbonisation
Net zero infrastructure: Reducing operational carbon in UK building stock
What measures are the UK government taking to tackle the problem of operational carbon in the built environment and what...
10/05/2022
Decarbonisation
Net zero construction: the problem with embodied carbon
The UK government's Heat and Building Strategy fails to adequately address embodied carbon, which is expected to account for almost...
22/10/2021
Real Estate and Infrastructure
Negligence – what does it mean anyway?
Supreme Court judgment underlines difficulties in interpreting 'negligence ' in limitation of liability clauses
06/09/2021
Decarbonisation
The UK's Hydrogen Strategy signals next steps on the road to decarbonisation
The new strategy for a hydrogen economy offers a basis for long-term investment decisions.
26/08/2021
Read time
6m
Real estate
Supreme Court provides much-needed clarity on liquidated damages
Long-awaited Supreme Court judgment indicates a return to normal service in the interpretation of liquidated damages clauses
23/07/2021
Real estate
VAT reverse charge on building and construction services looms in March
Despite lobbying for a further delay in their introduction, construction businesses should prepare for the new rules
18/02/2021
Read time
3m
Decarbonisation
Government sets out energy decarbonisation, consumption and charging agenda
Expansive and comprehensive measures aim to change fundamentally the way that energy is generated and used in the UK
09/02/2021
Read time
7m
Financial Services
Mandatory climate reporting among new green finance measures
With the requirement to report on climate risk being extended incrementally over the next five years, those affected should be...
11/11/2020
Dispute resolution
Government's new procurement policy accelerates delivery of social value
Our two-part view of social value in public procurement opens with a look at a radical policy development that gives...
06/11/2020
Regulatory and compliance
Social value redefines bid process for public sector contracts
The second part of our view of social value in public procurement looks at how some public bodies – notably...
04/11/2020
Energy and Utilities
The Energy Transition | Net zero and RIIO-2, Tesla's Virtual Power Plant and Ofgem's State of the Market Report
This week's Energy Transition highlights include the role of net zero in Ofgem's RIIO-2 price control review, the postponement of...
30/10/2020
