Certainty Before Commitment

The decisions a dispute forces on you

Most businesses have a rough sense of their legal position. Far fewer have a view on what pursuing it will cost, what it is realistically worth, or what happens if it goes badly. Those are the questions that decide the matter:

• Is the claim strong enough to be worth the cost and the management time?
• What is it realistically worth, and what is realistically recoverable if we win?
• Does the other side have the means to pay, and how does that change the strategy?
• Is there a deadline, a limitation date or a contractual trigger that removes the option of waiting?
• Would settling now cost less than being right in eighteen months?

We are engaged to answer those questions early, with a clear recommendation, so the board can make a decision rather than defer one.

How we assess a dispute

1. Risk: What can realistically go wrong, on liability, on quantum and on costs, and how likely each outcome is.
2. Evidence: What you hold, what you need, what may already have been lost, and how the gaps affect the position.
3. Value: The realistic range of outcomes, not the best case, set against what pursuing them will cost.
4. Recovery: Whether a judgment or settlement can actually be turned into money, and from whom.
5. Strategy: Whether urgent action, negotiation, a formal process, or no action at all is the right response, and in what order.

Experience on both sides of a dispute

Tenarys Law was founded and is led by Kevin Timms, a commercial disputes solicitor with more than fifteen years’ experience acting for claimants, defendants, businesses and insurers.

That experience on both sides of disputes shapes how the firm assesses a case: what the other side is likely to do, where a claim tends to fail, and where the commercial settlement usually lands. Instructions are handled by senior solicitors, supported by counsel and technical experts where a matter requires it.