Commercial Litigation: "a fair but firm approach"
Listening – Acting – Resolving
The aim of the Commercial Litigation team at QualitySolicitors FJG is to take a fair but firm approach when seeking to resolve a dispute. We offer total commitment to our clients meaning that we will champion your cause until we reach a satisfactory outcome, where possible without the need for litigation. QS FJG is a third tier firm in commercial litigation, Essex in the Legal 500.
Our highly-trained, commercially-aware team will seek to understand your objectives and devise and implement a cost-effective bespoke strategy in order to reach a speedy resolution.
Supportive – Cost-efficient – Effective
We offer a Partner-led service and the Commercial Litigation team is headed up by Partnership member James Burkett. James is recommended in the Legal 500 and has expertise in contractual and commercial disputes, professional negligence claims, construction disputes, banking disputes, option agreement disputes, off-shore trusts, employment issues, private international law, commercial Landlord and Tenant disputes, corporate insolvency, regulatory work, care homes, administrative law, European Community law: competition, health and safety and company law. James is a member of The Professional Negligence Lawyers’ Association, the Civil Litigation Section of the Law Society and the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL). James clients are both nationally and internationally based and some of his recent successes include:
- Successfully represented four claimants in £2 million claim against an international group of companies: claims involved varied and complex legal arguments.
- Successful representation of client involving a potential £25 million claim by large group of companies.
- Successfully defended developer client in a Defective Premises Act claim relating to substantial heave damage claim.
- Successfully resisted multi-party claim brought against property developer involving complex questions of causation.
- Successful high value claim against International Currency Dealers, investigation of Service Agreements in UK and the USA.
- Successfully defended nurses on multiple charges of misconduct brought against them by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
"The ‘first-class’ team at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP recently advised an offshore financial adviser from Regency Asset Management in a claim which involved Russian, UK and Czech jurisdictional issues. Practice head James Burkett is ‘excellent’ and has ‘exceptional knowledge’."
Legal 500, 2011 UK Edition