Arbitration & Litigation

Services

Arbitration & Litigation

Arbitration

Arbitration advice and representation is a service our firm offers in relation to each of our main service areas. We have a wealth of knowledge in these areas, having represented our clients both locally and internationally in such proceedings. We have seen arbitration being increasingly used as an alternative to conventional litigation. Arbitration tends to be less costly, less time consuming and often leads to less complicated resolutions being achieved. Several of our lawyers and consultants have extensive experience in arbitration, some having served as arbitrators and judges. Our firm also can assist other international law firms in arbitration proceedings, offering advice in relation to the laws of the Arab world.

Litigation

Business disputes will inevitably arise in the course of any business, but their resolution need not cost a fortune. Our dispute resolution and litigation teams are comprised of highly trained and experience litigators. This practical and creative team aims to achieve a swift commercial resolution aligned with your business objectives, in order to minimize the disruption a dispute can have on the management of a business.

Real Estate

We handle disputes for many of our commercial and local authority clients. A major feature of real estate litigation is diversity. Because of the range of clients for whom we act and the myriad properties they own or manage, our experience is vast.

Insurance

Our experienced lawyers deal with the resolution of disputes and the management and effective disposal of claims across a broad range of insurance contracts, be it reinsurance, or professional indemnity, general liability, product liability or claims arising from specific industry types such as property, healthcare, or construction. We deal on a regular basis with directors' and officers' liability, binding authority problems, political risk insurance, property, contingency claims, legal expenses insurance, subrogation, , claims credit insurance audits and underwriting risk assessments, policy drafting, leisure industry, employers and public, injuries of the utmost severity and health and safety.

Construction

If you have a construction dispute, we can negotiate, adjudicate, mediate, conciliate, arbitrate and litigate for you. We keep in mind that you don't want lengthy, expensive litigation. Such as:

  • Defended clients against challenges to their procurement procedures.
  • Acted for insurers in defense of professional-indemnity claims.
  • Pursued and defended defect claims against contractors.
  • Brought and defended loss and expense and delay claims.
  • Dealt with adjudications for and against architects, engineers and other consultants.

Intellectual Property

The intellectual property litigation team handles all types of intellectual property claims, including:

  • Trade mark infringement and passing off.
  • Copyright infringement.
  • Patent infringement.
  • Design right and registered design infringement.
  • Comparative advertising and malicious falsehood.
  • Media disputes.
  • Breach of confidence.
  • Anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy.
  • European and UK competition law issues.

Intellectual property litigation is a specialist discipline which requires special skills. Most disputes referred to the team are resolved without the need to resort to litigation.

Telecommunication and IT

We can advise our customers on settling domain name disputes and other internet-related problems.