What we do

Raworths Dispute Resolution lawyers represent businesses, institutions and individuals both in Yorkshire and across the UK.  We are here to resolve disputes, to protect your assets and your reputation while at the same time working with you to meet your commercial objectives.  We have lawyers who are specialists in their fields with experience of conducting all manner of commercial cases in the Magistrates Court to the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court).  At the same time, our team is equally experienced in all forms of alternative dispute resolution so that litigation can indeed be a last resort.

“Raworths legal advice has proved invaluable in guiding the Bradford & Bingley Shareholder’s Action Group through the complicated process and we have no hesitation in recommending their dispute resolution services”

 

Mr Richard Jennings

Chairman of Bradford & Bingley Shareholder’s Action Group

 

“Raworths have provided commercial advice to our company for over 20 years. All their services are of the highest calibre including Dispute Resolution. Many other firms of solicitors have wanted our business but Raworths is top of the tree”.

 

Mr Dennis Macfarlane

Managing Director of Up and Running (Harrogate) Limited

Our approach

If you are a business, the last thing you want is to embark upon a project or work opportunity that has no clear outcome, no fixed budget and a vague timetable.  However, that is the experience of many businesses which have been through the Court process to resolve a dispute.  Our approach is different:

• To advise on the merits of your case from the outset and to keep that advice under constant review
• To provide you with a projection of legal costs so that you can budget
• To provide you with the best timescale indication we can and keep to those timescales
• To value any claim so that legal costs incurred can be put in a financial context
• To set strategic objectives to bring a dispute to a conclusion as soon as possible
• To work at all times within your commercial objectives
• To keep you fully informed

Commitment to resolution

Our team has a commitment to resolving disputes amicably without selling your position short or losing sight of the commercial context.  Indeed, we have trained mediators within our teams who are resolving disputes with the benefit of a mediation process on a daily basis.   Methods we can employ include:

• Mediation – shuttle diplomacy with the assistance of a neutral third party
• Arbitration – agreeing to be bound by the decision of an appointed arbitrator
• Neutral Evaluation – a non binding opinion is given by a neutral third party
• Expert determination – an expert will provide a binding opinion
• Round table meeting – simple but can be more effective than protracted correspondence between lawyers

If Court becomes unavoidable

Sometimes the Court is the only way to resolve a dispute.  It may be that a precedent needs to be set, a settlement cannot be reached or quite simply your opponent is difficult.  In such circumstances, we will drive the litigation through to a conclusion, advise you as to the procedural steps and fight your corner.

If you would like any further information please contact Jonathan Mortimer, Matt Hill or Lisa Reed