What I offer

 

I can offer you wide practice knowledge and experience of the law spanning 40 years. I am comprehensive in my respect for the rule of law and the rights of individuals. 

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Each case is different. I will help you make an informed decision. I will identify where you stand ,what steps are available to you. I will explain the consequences of taking those steps. You can then make an informed decision, improve your position, and keep your liability to a minimum.

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Legal costs arise from processes prescribed by rules such as the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, or the Arbitration Act 1996 or Insolvency legislation 2020. I can provide you with a beginning to end assessment of the merits of your case, how best it might proceed and a cost budget estimation for each stage. You can then assess the benefit and risk. Legal aid is not available for commercial cases. But if your case is recognised as having a 75% or above prospect of success, then funding for legal fees and insurance against costs risks may well available to you​.

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I have been in all forms of dispute resolution process imaginable. Each have their different time, cost, quality of outcome and risk profiles.

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Careful listening, thorough investigation, detailed factual analysis, legal expertise, is what I provide my clients with fees agreed in advance.

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Clients and their comments

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Said to be “a brilliant lawyer” the sort you “need in a crisis” whose commitment to “getting the job the done is impressive”.

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My clients are in all commercial sectors and walks of life. 

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Frequently instructed by law firms on files where the case has “got off on the wrong foot wrong” has not been “fully articulated”, has been “going nowhere” or there is a “complete deadlock” with “impasse being unbreakable”. 

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I can act as a mediator where I am independent and impartial

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I have been in the vanguard of developing mediation in the uk and overseas. I can help set up and design a process to get you to a mediation and either be the mediator or act as you advocate at the mediation. I regularly prepare cases for mediation

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In any case where I remain independent and impartial, and the parties agree I can act as mediator and either facilitate or help evaluate what the outcome in court or at arbitration or adjudication might be.

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As a solicitor

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Confidentiality is paramount. I can provide to you with:

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• Initial free-of-charge consultation.

• Case assessment before you commit to any option.

• Strategic planning and a tactical approach to get what you need.

• Urgent injunctive relief to preserve assets and evidence outcomes or remove obstructions to your rights.

• Identify the right legal or other dispute process or processes most beneficial to your case from a time, cost, quality of outcome and risk perspective.

• Avoidance advice to prevent a dispute from arising in the first place.

• Pre-action correspondence in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.

• Talking the case to court from interim applications to trial with Counsel and experts.

• Crafting an enforceable settlement pre- or post court.

• Enforcing settlement decisions from basic collection to contempt proceedings.

• The full range of cost recovery litigation.

• Advice on cost liability.​​