Costs
For most clients who become involved in legal disputes, one of their principal concerns is costs. We seek to address the issue of costs with our clients at the outset of a dispute in an honest, straightforward and clear manner.
Our Dispute Resolution team encompasses decades of experience and specialist expertise and we offer top quality services at very reasonable rates, especially when compared to many City-based law firms offering similar levels of expertise. Nevertheless, the cost of court proceedings in particular can be very high and any party to a dispute has to be aware of not only their liability for the costs of their solicitor, but their potential liability for the costs of the other party in the event that they are unsuccessful.
We seek to act proportionately in every case and we believe that it is important to try and achieve a solution to any dispute which will minimise our client’s exposure to costs, while achieving the best possible outcome.
We will provide you with a cost estimate at the outset of your dispute and this estimate will be updated as the dispute proceeds. We will also explain your potential liability in respect of the other party’s costs and how best this potential liability can be minimised, if applicable. We encourage our clients to speak to us openly about costs and funding at all stages.
Funding options
In order to support our clients in pursuing deserving cases, we have a number of funding options which may assist, including:
- Third party funding
- Insurance
- Pay-as-you-go
- Fixed fees
- Conditional Fee Agreements (commonly known to as “no win no fee”); and
- Deferred fee arrangements
TWM Solicitors do not undertake publicly funded work – Legal Aid. The availability of Legal Aid is in any event extremely limited.
Our team will be able to discuss these options with you in more detail if needed.
For further information about our dispute resolution work, please contact David Hitchcock, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution.