Our manufacturing lawyers offer expert legal advice to advanced manufacturing and engineering businesses of all shapes and sizes across the UK

Our planning solicitors advise a range of organisations, developers, landowners and investors on all aspects of planning law from pre application advice through to enforcement and legal challenge proceedings. We also advise on the compulsory purchase process (“CPO”) and infrastructure schemes.

As family law solicitors, we work alongside you to achieve the best result in a cost-effective and sensitive manner.

As probate specialists, we help families and executors to sort out all the legal and financial matters when someone close to them dies.

We were instructed by a gaming software developer who was in dispute with a development company in relation to deliverables on representative hardware.

A recent boundary dispute in the Court of Appeal has provided a useful reminder not only of the Court’s approach in boundary disputes, but also of the relevance of the “hedge and ditch” rule is establishing the position of a boundary.

Farming disputes take many forms: a dispute between the partners or family members following a death or the breakdown of a relationship; the dissolution of a partnership; or when a promise of inheritance is broken. The background to a dispute will help to determine the best way of resolving it – and mediation could be the most constructive method, not least as it can go some way to help mend family ructions.

Taking a dispute to tribunal is costly, time consuming and distracting, which is why more and more employers are actively embracing mediation as their preferred way to resolve disputes with employees. Under the Employment Tribunal Rules, tribunals are actively required to encourage parties to use alternative dispute resolution (ADR) routes, such as mediation.

We were recently instructed by one of our long-standing manufacturing clients in a dispute regarding unpaid invoices. The client is a subsidiary company of a large engineering group based locally.

Adjudication is a fast-track dispute resolution process designed specifically for the construction industry, it allows parties to resolve disputes quickly and cost-effectively without halting ongoing projects.