Tessa Garner
Senior Knowledge Lawyer, UK
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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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
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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
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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
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2m
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
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5m
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
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4m
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
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5m
Energy and Utilities
The Energy Transition | UK's largest ever EV charging contract awarded, 1 MW solar system for hire, and new report calls electricity grids 'weak link'
This week we look at a report describing electricity grids as a 'weak link' in the power sector, calls for...
16/10/2020
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7m
Energy and Utilities
Energy and Utilities Update | 19 June 2020
In this edition we look at several Ofgem open letters outlining its approach to regulatory compliance in light of Covid-19...
19/06/2020
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5m
05/06/2020
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2m
Energy and Utilities
Energy and Utilities Update | 29 May 2020
In this edition we look at Ofgem's changes to the grid code which specify technical requirements for electricity storage facilities...
29/05/2020
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5m
16/03/2020
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7m
Energy and Utilities
Energy and Utilities Update | February 2020
Welcome to our latest update on regulatory and market developments in the energy and utilities sector.
17/02/2020
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