Stuart is a partner and Solicitor-Advocate in the commercial disputes resolution team. He specialises in the following:
Commercial disputes including:-
- disputes involving breach of contract or warranties or restrictive covenants or guarantees;
- disputes relating to the sale and purchase of corporate assets;
- disputes between partners, shareholders or directors;
- disputes involving breach of employee, partner or director restrictive covenants; and
- disputes involving emergency remedies including injunctions.
Regulatory and disciplinary matters including:-
acting on behalf of sport national governing bodies and individual sports athletes before disciplinary and regulatory tribunals including anti-doping cases and appeals to Sport Resolutions and the Court of Arbitration for Sport;
acting on behalf of professionals before their regulatory and disciplinary bodies;
advising sport national governing bodies on regulatory and disciplinary procedures and disputes; and
acting on behalf of sport national governing bodies in relation challenges to their actions through the High Court.
Professional negligence and fraud disputes including disputes involving:-
lenders;
solicitors;
surveyors; and
Stuart has a wealth of experience providing specialist advocacy services in the Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court as a Solicitor-Advocate including:-
Legal 500 2011
Wright Hassall LLP’s service is ‘
first class; the advice is always practical and protects the legal interests of clients’. The firm acts for individuals and governing bodies such as the British Show Jumping Association.
Richard Lane and
Stuart Cutting are the key contacts, and
Mark Lewis ‘
responds promptly to any contact’.
Background
Stuart read law at Kings College, London and subsequently trained with Bevan Ashford, qualifying in 1998. He headed up the Disputes Resolution team at a south coast, multi-office practice before joining Wright Hassall in 2008 and becoming a partner in 2010.
Interests
Stuart spends his spare time playing and watching football (as a life long Liverpool fan), squash, golf, cycling and training for the Great North Run (having previously run the London Marathon).
