Services / Litigation and arbitration
Civil and commercial litigation
Most civil disputes are not decided by who is right but by who can prove it. Work here therefore begins with the documents that actually exist, and the case is built from what they can establish.
SCOPE
What this covers
- An assessment of the case and its prospects before any decision to sue
- Drafting of plaints, defences and applications of every kind
- Advocacy at first instance, on appeal, and before the Supreme Court
- Settlement negotiation where that is the better route
MATTERS
The matters this covers
Each has its own page setting out what the statute requires and what to prepare.
- Claims on loan agreements
- Breach of sale and service contracts
- Suretyship, mortgage and pledge
- Tort claims for damages
- Cheques and negotiable instruments
- Land and property disputes
- Adverse possession, servitudes and rights of way
- Lease, hire-purchase and eviction
- Succession, wills and division of an estate
- Family matters: divorce, custody and marital property
- Consumer cases
- Defending as defendant, and counterclaims
LAW
The legislation
- Civil and Commercial Code
- Civil Procedure Code
ENQUIRIES
