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High Value Litigation – Why Choose Ringrose Law?

Over the last 20 or more years, Martin Roberts has developed a particular niche in the world of highly complex, high value litigation. His first experiences of work in the Court of Appeal were in the field of family law (especially highly complex finance cases following divorce and in the field of international child abduction) and in later years he has taken a significant number of cases right through the Appeal process. For the true litigator there is hardly a more exciting or more rewarding experience.

Since leaving the family law arena about 15 years or so ago Martin has specialised in high value personal injury, clinical and professional negligence cases. But, Martin has also retained a core practice in the field of commercial and especially contested probate litigation and both areas are now where he spends almost the entirety of his working week. Recently Martin has been involved in a case of huge importance in the interpretation of Contractual Time Limitation Clauses and the Sale of Goods Act which has been the subject of a number of Court of Appeal hearings and which has been reported in the All England Law Reports. He has specialist experience and qualifications in the field of contested probate litigation. For more details click here

Martin acts for both Claimants and Defendants without fear or favour. He, and the rest of our litigation team, can devote the specialist skills needed to cases that are document heavy and which require an in-depth knowledge of not only the litigation itself but a client’s particular business environment and business needs. We spend time not just on your case but getting to know you and your business.

But, as well as being a highly motivated litigator, Martin is well aware that clients sometimes need a dispute to be resolved without damaging a valuable relationship that extends beyond the dispute itself. We have access to and contacts with some of the best legal and commercial brains in the country. We can even talk to you about project managing your dispute working out the most appropriate timeline so that we can anticipate where and when the largest input of legal and other expert resources is likely to be required.

There are some cases, of course, where money must be no object when it comes to the costs of the litigation itself but we at Ringrose Law also appreciate that commercial clients are not made of money and certainly not in these particularly challenging times. Lawyers aren’t made of money either!

Large scale commercial litigation has all sorts of costs implications and no such litigation comes cheaply but Martin is familiar with the “tricks of the trade” that are needed to make such cases manageable. The availability of witness statements marked up with hypertext links to electronic bundles can help enormously and we have here at Ringrose a backroom of IT skills that we believe is hard to beat not only in the county but region-wide.

Just like lawyers, commercial clients tend to be risk averse and Martin has access to what is a rapidly evolving market in litigation funding. Without such products being available, costs of bringing otherwise very meritorious claims might seem prohibitive and we can talk to you to help you determine the most appropriate funding option not just for you but for each particular case. Commercial clients need to know how to mitigate the costs liability risk.

In some cases there may be a real fear that your opponent is spending a disproportionate amount on costs. It may be right for him or her to do so; it may not. But, where it appears inappropriate Martin is able to advise on the availability of, and can seek to obtain, costcapping orders and is well aware of the various mechanisms available to challenge a party’s costs estimates.

Lord Justice Jackson expects to report at the end of 2009 on the perceived failures of the Civil Justice system to control costs. He is going to look at civil litigation from fast track to mega-case and will particularly be looking at the costs-shifting rules which have underpinned English cases for centuries. Such rules have changed massively in the past 10 years as has the legal profession as a whole but more changes are on the way. Martin and his team will be ready and will do their best to make whatever new regime evolves work for you.