Advocacy services to support you.
Our Advocacy Unit allows us to combine experienced litigation teams with specialist advocates working together from the outset preparing cases for presentation in Court. Through our seamless advocacy service we can support your best interests and ensure your case is presented in the best possible way.
Clients are always given the option of instructing external barristers and a member of our advocacy unit will only be recommended if we believe the individual is the best person for a particular case. We continue to have strong relationships with barristers.
We can act as advocates providing either Chambers (private room appointments) or Trial Advocacy in the High Court, County Court, Tribunals or Arbitration Proceedings. In particular our advocates specialise in:
- Commercial litigation disputes (including contract and tort disputes)
- Finance litigation
- Emergency actions including injunctions
- Landlord and tenant disputes
- Debt actions
- Construction disputes
- Insolvency litigation
- Disputes involving ownership of or rights over land
- Disputes arising out of wills or estates
- Personal Injury claims and coroners hearings
- Intellectual property
The benefits of using our advocacy service are:
- Direct access to a specialist advocate
- Experienced solicitors and advocates working together
- The efficiency of using an in-house specialist advocate to save costs
We are able to act for parties who are not clients of the firm for a fixed competitive price agreed in advance (following receipt of papers). We can provide the written advice or opinion of one of our specialist advocates at anytime throughout a dispute.
Funding
Fixed fee, capped fee and conditional fees are all considered. We will take a pragmatic and creative approach as our aim is to foster long-term business partnerships with our clients.
Due to our extensive experience, from an early stage we will be able to confirm whether we can act on your behalf on a conditional fee basis, more commonly known as “a no win no fee agreement”. Such an agreement simply means that if we do not succeed with your claim you will not have to pay for our services. However, if we are successful, you will be responsible for our legal costs in accordance with the conditional fee agreement. However, your reasonable legal costs are often recovered from the opposing party if you are successful.
