Our experienced and active dispute resolution and litigation team practise across many contentious practice areas and the many procedures which control those areas.
A significant number of our clients are public sector bodies including central Government, London boroughs and many local authorities up and down the country. We also act for utilities and private clients.
We appear regularly in the Courts on judicial reviews, planning appeals and injunctions. We also advise on a broad range of commercial contractual disputes (often via implementing Dispute Resolution Procedures in those contracts), and procurement challenges, as well as housing, commercial landlord and tenant, environmental work and real estate related disputes – particularly concerning land development agreements and urban renewal schemes.
11 March 2025
The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in R (British Gas Trading and E.ON) v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. This judgment follows the Divisional Court’s earlier refusal to grant British Gas and E.ON permission to judicially review decisions made by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and…
Read more3 March 2025
Sharpe Pritchard recently acted for a Local Authority landlord in a case where they successfully ‘set off’ the tenant’s outstanding rent arrears against the tenant’s legal costs following settlement of a disrepair claim at Pre-Action Protocol stage. Case background The tenant (T) brought a disrepair claim against the London Borough of Newham (LBN) which was…
Read more24 January 2025
Simon Kiely, a Partner in Sharpe Pritchard’s Dispute Resolution team, acted for Lewes District Council in prosecuting national building materials supplier Travis Perkins. The prosecution came about for offences under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (the Act) following a fatal accident involving wood falling from one of their delivery vehicles. At…
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