LOCAL authorities are being schooled in how to defend themselves against legal claims.
Council officials from Redcar and Cleveland, Scarborough, Hartlepool, North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough and Stockton, attended a mock trial complete with a fake judge and barristers and claimants.
Even the venue for the workshop, part of the axed Samsung microwave plant near Billingham, was fitted out to look like a courtroom.
Alison Shepherd, a partner with Crutes solicitors, organisers of the event, said: "This was a chance for people from the local councils to see the kind of process there could be if there was a legal claim against them which proceeded to court."
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