Commercial/Business Litigation
BUSINESS LITIGATION & COMMERCIAL DISPUTES LEICESTER
Leicester Commercial Litigation and Disputes
In the commercial world, disputes are common and take place in many different forms. You could be having trouble recovering a debt. Your trademarks might be being infringed by others. Perhaps a commercial contract you are currently engaged in has been breached.
What sets commercial disputes apart from other disputes is the context they take place in – in the commercial world. Businesses invariably want the problem to go away with the minimum fuss and minimum amount of unwanted attention attracted to their business.
Law in context
Leicester solicitors fully embrace commercial matters in coming to a favourable resolution of your problem. We will tackle the problem early on and come up with a strategy best suited to your problem and your business’s needs.
Alternate Dispute Resolution
The 1998 Woolf reforms made considerable changes to the legal system and bought Alternate Dispute Resolution to the forefront of commercial litigation and disputes.
ADR consists of arbitration and mediation. Arbitration is much like a formal court in the sense there is a judge (known as an arbitrator) who is asked to come to a judgement on a dispute between two parties. Mediation is all about finding common ground and having the parties to a dispute come to a settlement. Any arbitration judgements or mediation settlements can have the full force of the law such that were they to be breached, further legal action could follow.
There’s a few other things to bear in mind. You should check your contracts or any documents concerning the original dispute. Many agreement will include a provision stating that one form of ADR or the other is to be the preferred way of resolving a dispute. It is also possible to organise arbitration panels or mediation using professional who have experiencing in resolving disputes in your industry.
To find out how ADR can be arranged and used to help settle your dispute, please get in touch with Leicester litigation and disputes solicitors to have a chat.
Services
We provide a full-range of litigation and dispute resolution services including advice and representation concerning:
- Intellectual property protection and enforcement
- Employment tribunals
- Contractual disputes including contract breach claims
- Commercial property disputes
- Landlord and tenant dispute resolutions
- Family business dispute resolution
- Intra-company disputes between shareholders and directors
- Agency, franchise and distribution disputes
If your particular dispute is not dealt has not been covered here, do not hesitate to contact Leicester litigation and dispute