Instead of their
usual job of being the means to a strong and stable government, it will occur to the
civil service that its main job has become a much trickier proposition: helping their political masters best each other in the looming general election.
Aside from the
usual local requirements, such as any employment legislation, dispute resolution requirement or governing law (for example where the
services will be delivered in both common law and
civil law jurisdictions), there are other issues that must be reviewed in preparing local agreements.