Dispute Resolution is the biggest single discipline we practise, covering both commercial and domestic disputes.
With a strong team of specialists, we are ideally placed to guide you through the difficulties and dangers of a dispute. Our litigators and advocates have experience in and across a broad range of areas, with a traditional base in claims of the Chancery Division.
Under the leadership of Roger Millman, senior partner and head of the litigation department, Arnold Fooks Chadwick LLP regularly opposes city law firms in multi-dimensional disputes as well as more low key disputes.

Our comparative size makes for  efficiency and cost-savings and allows us to provide a personal, supportive service, focussing only on what is relevant.

We aim for the active rather than reactive approach, taking the dispute to your opponent and seeking to resolve it at the earliest possible stage. Our technical expertise, in consultation with industry specialists, ensures an early understanding of issues. Our advice will always balance the attainable end result against the cost of getting there.

We advise claimants and defendants on a broad range of disputes, whether in litigation, arbitration or mediation. Areas include:

Goods and Personal Property

• Bailment e.g. rental and storage agreements
• Conversion
• Trespass to Goods

Company

• Breach of directors’ duty
• Derivative actions by shareholders
• Unfair prejudice claims by minority shareholders
• Ownership of shares

Contested Probate & Inheritance Claims

• Inheritance (Provision for family and dependants) Act 1975 (where a deceased fails to make proper provision for his family)
• Invalid execution/want of knowledge and approval
• Lack of testamentary capacity
• Undue influence/forgery
• Court of Protection
• Trust Disputes

Contract

• Arbitration and ADR
• Agency
• Breach of contract
• Debt
• International Trade
• Commodities dealing
• Misrepresentation
• Sale of goods and services

Partnerships

• Limited liability partnerships
• Partnership disputes
• Representative claims

Land

• Adverse possession
• Easements and restrictions, e.g. rights of way
• Constructive and Implied Trusts, e.g. where documents do not reflect the true ownership
• Nuisance
• Trespass to Land

Landlord & Tenant

• Arbitration
• Breach of terms of a Lease
• Commercial lease renewal
• Disputed residential lease extensions
• Possession of land / forfeiting leases

Negligence

• Professional negligence, including claims against or defending claims against accountants, architects, banks, builders, insolvency practitioners, lawyers and surveyors
• Clinical negligence
• Personal injury

Tax

• Contested tax matters

Trusts

• Beneficiary claims
• Breach of duty trustees
• Court approval of transactions
• Removal of trustee

Contact: Roger Millman or Ben Pilbrow