I read somewhere that it was a ‘Strategic Partnership’ or something. If so, what does that entail? Is funding received from national government?
EDIT: I just looked at the accounts from Companies House. Yes, it is public money. Just wanted to check.
There is nothing that explicitly obliges SDSS to have legal expertise. However, I would have thought that having a pretty detailed and accurate idea of how SDSS is supposed to work according to the law would be an essential pillar underpinning all the other work SDSS undertake.