Civil Litigation - any recommendations please?

[blahblahblah72]

Could anyone recommend any lawyers that deal with civil litigation, preferably in Central London.
Thanks in advance.

[Greengrow]

I do. Email on mumsnet if you like.

[blahblahblah72]

I'm probably being really thick but how would I email on mumsnet? I can work out how to send a private message but not to email. Thanks by the way.

[Huppopapa]

I know any number of them. But my standard advice is "don't do it". Moreover, 'civil litigation' is a very wide category. Would it be awkward to indicate what you have in mind?

[Greengrow]

Sorry, I meant a private message.

I certainly agree with the poster above that litigation can be risky particularly for claims over £10k where in England if you lose you have to pay the other side's costs.

[Greengrow]

You do. Most litigation is not no win no fee so that qualified thing I thought only applied to conditional fee cases or am I wrong? Also mos litigation is nothing to do with personal injuries so surely that qualified shifting thing is irrelevant except to conditional fee cases?

[eurochick]

Can you be more specific OP? Civil lit is a very broad area. It covers what I do, but there are vast swathes of civil lit, e.g. personal injury, that I wouldn't touch because they are a specialist area and not my specialist area!

[Greengrow]

No problem. I do loads of civil litigation and it is never relating to personal injury work and virtually never on a conditional fee basis.

[blahblahblah72]

I really don't want to be too specific on the message board as ex (who the claim relates to) is quite something of a stalker.

[eurochick]

For someone to make a sensible recommendation, they really need to know whether it is a contract dispute, negligence, personal injury, etc. I'm not suggesting you go into the ins and outs of the dispute.

[Greengrow]

Let us assume it is the standard he has your property or goods or owed you money and you want to sue to get it back. If it's under £10k it is a small claim and you need to be careful not to waste too much on solicitors given the low value of the claim. you can go to moneyclaimsonline and sue on line (although it will end up in court if he does not settle). Make sure he has some money before you sue him.
If you were married to him and have a court order about finances then you will need a family lawyer to look at it probably. Same if you were unmarried but it's child support.
If it's about the proceeds from a jointly owned property you need a property lawyer.
Think about if he can pay because if he has no money or has disappeared there is no point in starting this.

[blahblahblah72]

GreenGrow - I sent you a personal message.

[blahblahblah72]

Eurochick, I hope you don't mind, I have sent you a message also.