Dispute Resolution

Our Dispute Resolution team’s principal focus is on resolving our clients’ issues quickly and efficiently. We take the time to understand and analyse the issues, to provide informed legal and practical advice and to consult with you in order to adopt the strategy appropriate to achieve the best outcome available.

In doing so, we apply our extensive legal knowledge and our considerable experience in dealing with a diversity of disputes and use our skills in negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation across a range of Federal and State courts and tribunals, including industry tribunals.

Whilst our goal is to obtain the best result available, our role includes keeping our clients informed and advised and, to achieve this, we communicate regularly with them and remain accessible to them.

Where appropriate, we enlist the expertise of other lawyers and specialists throughout the firm and make use of our membership of the MSI Global Alliance of lawyers to access lawyers interstate and overseas.

The areas we service are broad but include:

• Contractual and commercial disputes

  Resolving issues in the interpretation and enforcement of contracts.

• Trade Practices and Fair Trading Acts

  Enforcing and interpretation of obligations under legislation.

• Insolvency and restructuring

  Liquidations, administrations, receiverships, bankruptcy, preference claims.

• Planning and compulsory acquisition

  Advising on and obtaining compensation for affected parties.

• Partnership/shareholder disputes

  Interpreting agreements and obligations and enforcing entitlements.

• Intellectual property

  Protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, copyright, trade marks, licensing, confidentiality agreements, restraints of trade.

• Property disputes

  Dealing with ownership, lease and contract of sale disputes and enforcement of obligations.

• Directors’ duties

  Advising directors on obligations and duties and their enforcement.

• Franchise disputes

  Enforcing and interpreting of agreements for franchisors and franchisees.

• Professional negligence

  Disputes with professionals as to duties, quality of service and costs.

• Retention of title

  Interpretation and enforcement of clauses and obligations.

• Administrative law review

  Review of decisions of the range of administrative and statutory tribunals.

• Debt recovery

  Prompt recovery of debts in a range of courts and jurisdictions.