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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BUSINESS DISPUTES -- THE PROBLEM EXPLAINED -- 2. THE LAW: RIGHTS AND REMEDIES -- 2.1. Rights -- 2.1.1. Sources of rights and duties -- Contracts -- Property rights -- Trusts -- Statutory rights -- Torts and other civil wrongs -- 2.1.2. Contract disputes (1) -- 2.1.3. Contract disputes (2) -- the pandemic -- 2.2. Remedies -- 2.2.1. Order for the payment of money -- 2.2.2. Injunction -- 2.2.3. Declaration -- 2.2.4. Remedies: further questions -- 3. BINDING DECISIONS -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Litigation: court proceedings -- 3.3. Non-payment |
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Is there a dispute at all? -- 3.3.1. Insolvency -- 3.3.2. The debtor who knows payment is due but refuses to pay -- 3.4. Other types of binding decision -- 3.4.1. Introduction -- 3.4.2. Arbitration -- 3.4.3. Expert determination -- 3.4.4. Adjudication -- 3.4.5. Financial Ombudsman -- 3.5. Litigation, arbitration and expert determination compared -- 4. WHO WILL WIN? -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Finding the facts -- 4.2.1. The factual dispute: the problem of two worlds -- 4.2.2. Witnesses: perception, bias and memory -- 4.3. Forecasting: advice on the litigation outcome |
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4.3.1. What is an advice on the merits? -- 4.3.2. Key aspects of an advice on the merits -- 4.3.3. Probability of success -- 4.3.4. Underlying assumptions and information -- 4.3.5. Decision trees -- 4.3.6. Outcome prediction software -- 4.3.7. Bias and litigation forecasting -- 4.3.8. Limitations on outcome predictions -- some data and further considerations -- 4.3.9. Best use of forecasting -- 4.3.10. Covid-19 and further outcome uncertainties -- 4.4. The Trial: Judicial Decision-Making and the Trial Outcome -- 4.4.1. The jigsaw of facts |
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4.4.2. Legal principle, the overall merits and 'dirty dogs' -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 5. LAWYERS, THEIR FEES AND LEGAL COSTS -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Funding your own costs -- 5.2.1. Payment on the usual basis -- Solicitors and barristers -- Client remains liable to pay fees if it 'wins' the case -- 5.2.2. Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) -- Main type of CFA -- Other CFA arrangements -- 5.2.3. Third party funding (TPF) -- 5.2.4. Damages-based agreements (DBAs) -- 5.2.5. Insurance -- 5.2.6. Settlement offers under CFA, TPF and ATE arrangements -- 5.3. Costs-shifting orders |
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5.3.1. When is a cost-shifting order made -- and for how much? -- 5.3.2. Further considerations -- Who was the winner? -- Unreasonable refusal to mediate, etc -- Cases for recovery of fixed costs only -- Pre-trial costs -- Non-parties -- Effect on CFAs and other funding arrangements -- 5.4. 'Insuring' legal costs exposure through court processes -- 5.4.1. Introduction -- 5.4.2. Part 36 Offers -- Introduction -- Defendant's Part 36 Offer -- Claimant's Part 36 Offer -- Part 36 Offers: conclusion -- Open offers -- 5.4.3. Security for costs -- 5.5. Comparison with arbitration and expert determination |
| Summary |
Resolving Business Disputes will give company directors, business executives and other commercial decision-makers a unique and essential insight into how to resolve business disputes and to reach the best outcomes by making effective decisions. The book is a guide, explaining the unique choices created by commercial conflict, basic workings of the law about disputes, the main avenues of dispute resolution, the forecasting of litigation outcomes for cases going to court, the funding of legal cases, the management of the risk involved, the creation of a dispute strategy, how to make the best use. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Conflict management.
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Conflict management. |
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Dispute resolution (Law)
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Dispute resolution (Law) |
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Business enterprises -- Law and legislation.
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Business enterprises -- Law and legislation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bate, Stephen. Resolving Business Disputes : How to Get Better Outcomes from Commercial Conflicts. Portland : Spiramus Press, ©2020 |
| ISBN |
9781913507015 (electronic book) |
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1913507017 (electronic book) |
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