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Articles by Nicola Fairbairn

Protect Duty Draft Legislation Published: What You Need to Know

Protect Duty Draft Legislation Published: What You Need to Know

On 2 May 2023, the hotly anticipated Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, known as Martyn’s Law, was published in draft, along with explanatory no ...

Beyond Learning

Beyond Learning

Nicky Fairbairn, a Real Estate Partner and member of the Education team at international law firm DAC Beachcroft and Scott Corfe, a Director at Public ...

The Civic University

The Civic University

Nicky Fairbairn, a Real Estate Partner and member of the Education team at International law firm DAC Beachcroft asks Scott Corfe, Research Director a ...

Strategic Priorities and Risks

Strategic Priorities and Risks

Nicky Fairbairn, a partner in the Education team at international law firm DAC Beachcroft considers the dominant legal issues facing higher education. ...

Achieving Net Zero in Warehousing

Achieving Net Zero in Warehousing

Nicky Fairbairn, Industrial specialist and Real Estate partner at DAC Beachcroft explores how the sector is responding to the net zero challenge, with ...

The impact of virtual shopping on the physical environment

The impact of virtual shopping on the physical environment

Increases in internet shopping is having a significant impact on both long distance and last mile delivery and also on the built environment. Nicky Fa ...

Future of the University Estate

Future of the University Estate

Nicky Fairbairn, a partner in the Education team at DAC Beachcroft, an international law firm, considers five filters for decision making that she con ...

Estates Strategy: Thinking Beyond COVID-19

Estates Strategy: Thinking Beyond COVID-19

This article was first published in University Business. Considerations about the future shape of the campus, for any education establishment, are on  ...

Bywords for success

Bywords for success

Emerging as a viable long-term institution post COVID requires some fundamental re-examination, with or without recourse to the Higher Education Restr ...

Higher Education: A new model emerges

Higher Education: A new model emerges

Purpose, technological impact, the purpose of physical institutions and the student body composition were all changing pre-COVID-19. They are now cent ...