Dispute Resolution

With offices across Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, including Lincoln, Grimsby and Hull, our professional and caring solicitors can help.

Dispute Resolution Solicitors

It is not always possible to avoid disputes arising. In some cases, disputes may resolve without input from lawyers. However, in cases where a dispute cannot be resolved in this way, you should seek the advice of an experienced legal professional. The dispute resolution solicitors at Bridge McFarland LLP are seasoned in dealing with civil and commercial disputes relating to personal and business issues.

Our solicitors in Anlaby, Brigg, Hull, Grimsby, Market Rasen, Lincoln, Louth, and Scarborough can support you in the High Court and County Court and in all forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Our ADR specialities include:

Mediation
Arbitration
Expert Determination
Adjudication
Negotiation

At Bridge McFarland LLP, our team of experienced litigation lawyers can assist you in relation to your dispute. Please call us on 0800 987 8800 today.

Solicitors for Dispute Resolution Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire

Bridge McFarland LLP understands the extensive costs and time spent working to resolve a dispute. We work closely with you to understand your objectives and subsequently achieve the best outcome for your issue.

We work on a variety of dispute cases concerning both personal and commercial matters. Our expertise covers, but is not limited to:

Contract Disputes
Shareholder Disputes
Partner and Director Disputes
Trusts and Probate Disputes
Professional Negligence
Property and Housing Disputes
Lawyer Negligence
Property Negligence

Dispute Resolution Solicitor Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire

Parties facing litigation may want to avoid Court proceedings. We always recommend alternative forms of dispute resolution. Our team will guide you throughout the process, whether you seek to pursue a claim, or someone is pursuing a claim against you.

Legal Services Near Me

At Bridge McFarland LLP, based in Anlaby, Brigg, Hull, Grimsby, Market Rasen, Louth, Scarborough and Lincoln, our experienced dispute resolution lawyers understand that no two disputes are the same. With that in mind, we take the time to fully understand your case and your intentions to work towards the most favourable outcome.

It is essential to seek advice from a specialist dispute resolution solicitor as early as possible to ensure that costs and time wasted is reduced where possible.

Get in touch with our Dispute Resolution Solicitors today

For more information about how Bridge McFarland LLP can support you in resolving your dispute, whether that be through litigation or a Court process, please call 0800 987 8800 or email enquiries@bmcf.co.uk and speak to our friendly team.

Alternatively, if you want to make a direct enquiry, please fill in the online form below, and we will get back to you.

Funding Arrangements for Dispute Resolution Claims

In appropriate cases, we will share the risk with you through flexible and innovative funding arrangements, including:

Conditional fee agreements (CFAs) (also known as “no win, no fee” agreements)
Discounted CFAs (also known as “no win, low fee” agreements)
Fixed and capped fees
Competitive hourly rate charges
Legal expenses (“after-the-event” or “ATE”) insurance to cover the risk of having to pay costs to the other side (and your own expenses) if your claim is unsuccessful
Disbursement funding for expenses such as court fees and expert’s fees

If a claim is suitable for funding by a full CFA with ATE legal expenses insurance and a disbursement funding loan, it will involve no up-front costs to you, and you will have nothing to pay if the claim is unsuccessful.

We will discuss these options for funding your case, but you can find further details here.

Dispute Resolution Frequently Asked Questions

This is often a concern for sellers when providing potential purchasers with sensitive information about their business. Any prospective purchaser will need to see information about your business so as to make an informed decision as to whether to proceed and at what price.

However, you need to ensure that the purchaser cannot walk away from the deal and use the information you have provided for their own benefit. You can therefore enter into a “confidentiality agreement” or “non-disclosure” agreement with the purchaser. These documents contain details of what information will be regarded as “confidential” and to whom it can be disclosed (for instance, professional advisors). They will also deal with what happens if the purchaser breaches your confidentiality.

Usually each party to a dispute pays his or her own legal costs. The general rule is that the losing party in litigation is ordered to pay the successful party’s legal costs as well as having to bear their own.

If the value of the dispute is less than £10,000.00 the Court will not usually order the losing party to pay the successful party’s costs and for that reason it will not usually be economically viable to instruct Solicitors in cases where the value of the dispute is £10,000.00 or less. Some claims can be funded on a Conditional Fee basis (sometimes known as a “no win, no fee” agreement) by virtue of which the lawyers concerned will only be paid if the claim succeeds. Often when litigation is funded in this way insurance will also be taken out against the risk that the claim will fail and the Claimant will have to pay the other side’s costs. We are authorised by one of the Country’s leading litigation insurers to issue insurance policies of this kind.

Generally speaking alternative dispute resolution (or ADR) refers to methods of attempting to resolve a dispute without recourse to formal proceedings. The most straightforward method of ADR is by negotiation.

If that fails parties to a dispute will often agree to attend a mediation hearing – indeed the Courts have made it very clear that in most cases parties are expected to do so. The Mediator has no power to enforce any kind of resolution on the parties but will facilitate a compromise where at all possible. Mediation is very often an expeditious and cost effective way to resolve a dispute.

ADR also refers to various other, more formal, ways of resolving disputes such as adjudication (often used in building disputes), early expert determination or arbitration.

Generally speaking people or companies are regarded as being insolvent when they cannot meet their liabilities. An individual in this position may be made bankrupt whereas a company in this position may be liquidated (or wound up).

In both cases the assets and liabilities of the insolvent company or individual are dealt with by an Insolvency Practitioner – typically an Accountant or Solicitor experienced in insolvency matters who holds a certificate entitling them to practice in this area and to be appointed as Trustees in Bankruptcy or Liquidators. We work closely with many local Insolvency Practitioners and have very significant experience of insolvency law and practice.

There are alternatives to bankruptcy and liquidation which include Voluntary Arrangements with creditors (which can apply to both individuals and companies) and Administration Orders (which apply to companies only and which seek to rescue a business).

It is essential to seek expert advice as soon as the prospect of insolvency arises (particularly the insolvency of a company) as failure to do so can have serious consequences for the individuals concerned where, for example, liabilities continue to be incurred.