Dispute Resolution

Our experienced team acts on behalf of local clients in Chester, Wirral and North Wales, as well as national clients based in the area.  The clients range from individuals and partnerships to companies from SMEs to PLCs.

The team has a wealth of experience and is committed to providing commercially based legal advice that uses the full range of techniques available to resolve a dispute to the best advantage of the client.  Our team is experienced not only with court actions and procedures but also other resolution techniques such as negotiation, mediation, adjudication, and expert determination. 

Disputes are varied and therefore very individual and our team therefore approaches each instruction as such. We will consider, with each individual client, the approaches available to achieve the desired outcome.  Any approach must consider not only the legal background but also the commercial realities so that the client can obtain an outcome within an agreed framework and move forward free from the constraints that any dispute inevitably imposes on personal or business life.  We realise that a client’s time is better spent on their business or indeed private life than in litigation, and our team will advise and support the client through the process. 

The size of the team and the depth of experience is substantial and more than rivals that which you would expect from many larger firms.  The team’s members have experience in

Commercial Litigation

•    Contractual Disputes

•    Shareholder Disputes

•    Partnership Disputes

•    Professional Negligence

•    Employment litigation (non tribunal)

•    Injunctions including search and seize orders

Debt Recovery

We offer a fixed fee service ranging from issuing letters before claim, to court proceeding and enforcement.  We are able to deal with disputed debts, using the full range of interventions . Click here for details of our competitive charges - Debt Recovery PDF

Property Litigation

•    Commercial Landlord & Tenant Disputes including; rent reviews, service of notices, contested lease renewals, dilapidation claims, forfeiture, breach of covenant       and non payment of rent claims

•    Construction Disputes

•    Adverse possession claims

•    Boundary Disputes

•    Residential Landlord & Tenant Disputes including; non payment of rent, breach of covenants and dilapidations

Intellectual Property

•    Patent Infringement

•    Trade Mark Infringement

•    Passing off /misuse of product or trading names and goodwill

•    Copyright infringement inc databases

•    Design infringement

•    Confidential Information cases and Trade Secrets

•    Defamation including Trade Libel

•    Domain name disputes

•    Breaches of any IP agreements inc IP licences, assignments, marketing and sponsorship agreements, advertising and marketing agreements, franchise agreements, software or any IT related agreements, Non disclosure agreements etc

Contentious Probate

•    Claims under The Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

•    Challenges to the validity of Wills

•    Beddoes Applications

•    Claims against Executors, Deputies, Trustees or Professional advisors

Alternative Dispute Resolution

•    Mediation

•    Adjudication

•    Arbitration

Insolvency

Corporate Insolvency

•    Administrations

•    Receiverships

•    Agricultural Receiverships

•    Corporate Reconstruction and Re-financing

•    Crisis Management

•    Liquidations 

  
•    Company Voluntary Arrangements

Personal Insolvency

•    Bankruptcy

•    Individual Voluntary Arrangements

•    Asset Recovery

•    Claims against Directors

•    Director Disqualification

•    Security Enforcement

Licensing

•    Premises Licence Applications

•    Personal Licence Applications

•    Variations to Premises Licences

Sports Law

•    Representation of players/managers/coaches at disciplinary proceedings

•    General media advice including defamation and privacy for clubs and individuals

•    Breach of IP agreements including sponsorship agreements and player contracts

The breadth of the team’s experience and expertise is remarkable.  The approach is one that acknowledges the needs and wishes of the client and matches those to the intervention that will produce the best outcome for the client.

The team is happy to have an initial free of charge chat regarding your particular problem and offers competitive fees and funding arrangements.

View contact details for Lisa Benskin - Head of Dispute Resolution & Commercial Litigation

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