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Dispute Resolution/Litigation
A business may need our help to resolve a dispute or commercial litigation with a third party or even internally.
In helping you resolve matters as best as they can be, we
- ascertain the facts with you
- evaluate the evidence to support them
- advise you on your legal rights and potential remedies
- establish your objectives
- have regard to any goodwill to be maintained or adverse media coverage that may occur
- balance the risks/rewards of the various scenarios
- apply business logic with you to finding the right way to proceed
- develop a case or litigation strategy and timescale
- agree a fee budget with you which is proportionate to the sum involved and the risks.
We may suggest resolution by professional negotiation either at arms length or at a settlement conference. Our team has lawyers who are vastly experienced in both developing strategies for promoting settlement and indeed, going on to negotiate settlements however hard and unreasonable your opponent might seem; or delicate those negotiations might need to be. We look at cases very pragmatically and laterally, with the aim of achieving the best for our clients at the earliest opportunity, thereby reducing litigation costs and corporate time that is wasted.
You may however have no choice but to apply to court for help – for example, where you seek an injunction to stop someone doing something or to do something, or to freeze a third party’s assets. Our litigators conduct Court actions as a daily part of their work in the various Courts throughout the Country. They are as comfortable before the High Court in London (where we have a litigation office) as they are in our local County Court. Our clients have the benefit of their unrivaled experience and knowledge.
All of our lawyers are well versed in:
- advising in urgent and/or high risk cases. Sometimes serious problems can occur unexpectedly.
- Providing ‘shadow’ advice and drafting where you want legal advice and assistance (outside the Court process), but do not want your opponent to know that you have engaged lawyers.
Put simply we are leading litigation solicitors in Surrey. We are the next best thing to having us as a partner or a director of your business – we look at the bottom line.
But for sure, we are your champions.
We are always looking to provide an exceptional service to our clients. For this reason, should you need to speak to one of the lawyers in our Commercial Litigation team outside of normal working hours (9.00am and 5.30pm), please call them free on 0800 652 6056.
Kingston Upon Thames, Cheam, Leatherhead, London,
Raynes Park and Walton-on-Thames
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Allow us (subject to an initial risk assessment) to recover your debt on a no recovery no fee basis. If we are successful all you pay is our fixed fee, which is agreed at the outset.
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- Adjudicator's decision will be enforced if the adjuidcator has not breached the rules of natural justice
- Another successful commercial landlord and tenant case for Howell Jones' Litigation Team
- Businessmen banned from being company directors
- Challenge to death-bed will fails
- Changes to insurance premiums
- Commercial and civil litigation - assessment of damages in contract claims
- Commercial and civil litigation - attack of arbitrator's decision
- Commercial and civil litigation - Court of Appeal - Court should be slow to set aside permission to appeal.
- Commercial and civil litigation - the withdrawal of an admission
- Commercial contract law - "all reasonable endeavour" clauses
- Commercial lease litigation - Howell Jones successfully help client exit lease due to breach
- Commercial leases and a company's articles of association are to be interepreted on their plain and ordinary meaning
- Commercial litigation - application for disclosure deemed a "fishing expedition"
- Commercial litigation - application for pre-action disclosure refused
- Commercial litigation - contractual interpretation - common sense must prevail
- Commercial litigation - International Arbitration Survey on costs demonstrates that UK is a popular forum for arbtrations
- Commercial litigation - Judge finds that court should exercise caution when granting early judgment in a case in which serious misconduct was alleged
- Commercial litigation - Jurisdiction
- Commercial litigation - Technology and Construction Court determines the test that needs to be satisfied on pre-action discovery applications.
- Commercial litigation - the sending of draft witness statements to a person's solicitors for a particular purpose had involved a very limited waiver of privilege
- Conflict of interest
- Construction law - insurance company's liability under bond securing performance of contractor not discharged through unrelated side agreement
- Contracts : Be proactive not reactive
- Costs law - although a party had achieved benefit, aggressive litigation had not been necessary.
- Court confirms that settlement offer remains salient on the issue of costs even after it is withdrawn
- Court of Appeal allows appeal due to judicial irregularity
- Court of Appeal finds that buy-to-let purchasers are not owed a duty by the lender's surveyor
- Court of Appeal finds that the Protection from Harrassment Act 1997 does not require the Claimant to prove foreseeability
- Damages - Trespass
- Defamation law - statement made in open court following wrongful publication of article
- Default Retirement Age: risky business for employers
- Do your contract terms prevent adjudicator shopping?
- Don't trip up on the Court rules!
- Final consent orders can be enforced without the need to lift a stay of proceedings or issuing a fresh claim
- Health and Safety Executive fine school after caretaker is injured
- Holiday entitlement
- Houseboat moored to wooden platform did not provide the occupants the protection of an assured tenancy.
- Howell Jones' Litigation Team succeed is securing charging order in family case
- Jones v Kernow – important case on property split after separation of unmarried couple
- Landlord and tenant law - appeal allowed due to Judge's reliance on expert evidence
- Landlord and Tenant Law - Declaration granting life tenancy set aside by Court of Appeal
- Law Society supports the Government’s pledge to ban referral fees in personal injury claims
- Litigation - mistakes as to service of official Court documents - Court of Appeal provides decision
- Litigation - company law
- Litigation - costs
- Litigation - discovery and privileged documents
- Litigation - Estate agent entitled to commission
- Litigation - general
- Litigation - Landlord and Tenant
- Litigation - recoverability of costs
- Litigation - social media risks
- Litigation - the importance of the correct wording when making an offer to settle a claim
- Litigation - update on civil costs reform
- Merger of Courts and Tribunal Services
- Negligence - Court sets test for determining when an investment transaction moves from execution only to one involving advice
- Partnership law - Court finds that Partnership Agreement did not provide for goodwill
- Patent for method of identifying a mobile 'phone user is not invalid for want of novelty or obviousness.
- Planning law - enforcement notices
- Privacy laws
- Professional negligence - solicitors' negligence did not cause loss and those solicitors were entitled to recover their fees
- Proper construction of noise abatement notice
- Property law
- Property litigation - adverse possession
- Summary Judgment cannot be obtained on an allegation of fraudulent misrepresentation.
- Tenant unable to claim penalty on Landlord's failure to operate within tenancy deposit scheme after tenancy has ended.
- The Bribery Act 2010 : are you ready?
- The courts are embracing new technology
- The extent of the duty of disclosure between creditor and prospective surety remains unchanged
- The Justice Secretary undertakes consultation on the small claims limit
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