Disputes & Personal Injury

Whether as a private individual or a company, and whatever dispute you may have our talented team of experts can provide you with an effective and efficient service.

We want to bring your problem to a satisfactory conclusion and deal with matters as quickly and cost effectively as possible.

By identifying your goals and expectations from the beginning we can give you the best possible practical advice and also look at ways of solving the dispute that don’t involve litigation.

Employment Disputes

Accident/Personal Injury
You may be entitled to compensation if you are injured at work, in a traffic accident, or in many other situations. You may have suffered work related disease, or clinical negligence. We have pursued and defended thousands of claims, and have acted on behalf of insurers. Our experience ranges from minor injury claims, fatal accidents, complex clinical negligence, drugs claims, and injury claims of substantial value.

Property Related Disputes
Talbots have one of the biggest property departments in the area. As a consequence, we have considerable experience in dealing with a variety of property related disputes. This may include encroachment claims, disputes over boundaries, hedges, fencing, breach of covenants, nuisance claims, and rights of way and building disputes. We deal with disputes over ownership of property.

With the boom in property investment, we are now acting for many landlords and tenants in connection with tenancy disputes and possession proceedings.

We have represented many private clients, small builders and developers, in connection with building disputes. This may involve disputes with regard to terms of contract, project management, quotations and costs, defective workmanship, regulation non-compliance, and disputes with sub-contractors.

Our experience tells us that such disputes need to be carefully managed to achieve the best possible cost effective and commercial outcome.

Funding
We do offer Conditional Fee Agreements commonly known as "No Win No Fee" where it is appropriate. In such cases we may make no charge for our work. We may be able to arrange "After the Event" insurance cover to give you costs protection, and arrange for disbursement funding. We will advise upon and adopt funding arrangements that suit your particular requirements.

General Claims
Our Civil Litigation Department has experience of representing clients in a wide variety of types of claims arising from different situations. This may be a dispute over a contract, consumer dispute, a professional negligence claim, disputes relating to property ownership, inheritance claims, debt collection, to name but a few. If we are unable to help, then we will assist you in finding specialist representation.

Commercial Litigation
In conjunction with our commercial department we are able to assist Companies with a wide range of commercial and contractual matters from debt recovery, through to substantial Contract claims, or disputes between shareholders/directors. Click here for further information.

For more information, or to make an appointment, contact us today.

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