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

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

Our corporate lawyers work with a vast range of businesses from start-ups and SMEs through to large family run businesses and multinational corporations.

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

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.

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.

Although legal proceedings are still the default method of resolving contract disputes, they are one of many ways of doing so. This article looks at the various ways of resolving disputes and the considerations for deciding which is most appropriate.

New changes to cost rules in court cases are very important for businesses to understand to enable them to understand how best to deal with a dispute.