Halliday Campbell WS

Overview:

Halliday Campbell WS are Signet Accredited Specialist Commercial Litigation Solicitors and Scottish Legal Awards Litigation Team of the Year finalists in both 2011 and 2012. We provide a commercial and contractual dispute resolution and avoidance service to local, national and international clients.

What we do

We do what we know we’re good at: we manage and resolve commercial disputes and litigation. We can help any business which finds itself involved in a dispute and we are regularly retained by solicitors from England and other countries to represent their clients in cases before the Scottish courts. We also assist other Scottish lawyers who don’t specialise in litigation but want to be able to refer their clients to an accredited specialist firm that they can trust to do the work well for a reasonable fee. Whether you are a business client, a solicitor from another jurisdiction or a Scottish lawyer who wants to provide a service to clients by establishing a relationship with a niche specialist firm, we will be happy to tell you how we can help if you get in touch. We act in disputes relating to:

Commercial agreements and obligations:

Joint venture, partnership and franchise agreements
Loan agreements, cautionary obligations and guarantees
Agency and commercial agents agreements
Supply of goods and services
Hire and consumer credit agreements

Company and corporate:

Unfair prejudice, derivative and minority protection
Deadlocked boards
Shareholder and investor interests
Breach of directors’ duties
General corporate governance

Intellectual property, information technology

Copyright
Trade names and marks
Design rights
Passing off
Database rights
Trade secrets and know-how
Domain names
Streaming media and broadcast rights

Property:

Rights of ownership and possession of land
Enforcement of missives and claims for breach
Rights of way, rights of access and servitudes
Boundary, nuisance and encroachment claims
Actions of division and sale
Recovery of land or premises from unlawful occupiers
Calling up and enforcement of standard securities and foreclosure
Recovery of rent and service charges and irritancy of leases
Enforcement of non-compete and keep open clauses
Dilapidations claims
Construction and building contracts and enforcement of adjudication awards

Insolvency:

Winding up and compulsory liquidation
Company voluntary arrangements
Gratuitous alienations
Unfair preferences
Liquidator’s remuneration
Validation orders
Retention of title claims

Debt and asset recovery:

Review of terms and conditions and contractual documentation and pre-action assessments
Letters before action
Statutory demands
Sequestration and liquidation petitions
Small claims, summary cause, ordinary and commercial actions in the Sheriff Courts and Court of Session
Registration in the Books of Council and Session, with supporting vouching, of agreements for execution and subsequent summary diligence
Diligence by way of charge, arrestment, attachment, inhibition
Registration of other UK and foreign judgments for enforcement in Scotland and instruction of enforcement of Scottish judgements elsewhere in the UK and abroad and European Enforcement Orders

Other:

Breach of privacy or confidentiality
Claims of fraud, misrepresentation, error, undue influence and reduction of contract
Actions for judicial review
Actions for count reckoning and payment, accounting for profit, repetition and restitution
Statutory appeals
Enforcement of restrictive covenants and claims for breach of warranty
Professional negligence claims against professionals, advisers and trustees
Verbal injury to reputation, defamation and malicious falsehood
Succession and guardianship disputes and proving the tenor of lost documents
Liquor and hotel premises licensing and liability
Business and compliance regulation: distance selling and consumer protection, health and safety, property misdescription and estate agency practice, environmental health, trading standards, weights and measures and fair trading compliance

We’ve litigated at all levels of the court system in Scotland: the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court), the Court of Session (Inner and Outer House), the Sheriff Courts (small claims, summary causes, ordinary actions and appeals), Licensing Committee hearings and specialist Tribunals (including the Transport Tribunal).

The specialist knowledge and experience we offer mean you’ll get a quality of service that at least matches any of the bigger firms. Without their charging rates.

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