Legal Disputes and Debt Recovery
Fighting your corner to help you get the right result
We pride ourselves in being pioneers in the field of dispute resolution and avoidance across Scotland.
Our team is regularly involved in contentious work, helping your business with our expertise (in courts and tribunals and with Ombudsman complaints), fighting your corner to help you gain the right result, whether you are pursuing or defending a dispute.
We help clients to avoid and resolve disputes.
We seek to resolve matters away from expensive litigation. We encourage alternative, lower cost forms of dispute resolution where suitable. However, sometimes that is simply not possible, and we have amassed thousands of hours of court appearances, having dealt with every conceivable type of hearing and dispute throughout Scotland and beyond - from Stranraer to Wick and from Banff to Lochmaddy. There are few legal road trips (and flights) we haven’t taken.
We at Whyte Fraser & Co are a team of experienced solicitors
Our Services
With over 20 years of experience in debt recovery
Based in Glasgow but with UK coverage, we’ve helped many businesses across different sectors over the years, such as construction contractors, manufacturers or banking and finance professionals.
Commercial Leases
Whether you are a commercial tenant or a commercial landlord, it is important to bear in mind that where the Lease states it has an end date, then the lease will not generally come to an automatic end unless or until a relevant written notice has been served by one party to the other referring to the exact terms of the lease. For example, the minimum period that a commercial lease might roll on for is 12 months if that notice isn’t properly given.
Building Construction Contracts
When it comes to construction contracts more often than ever the devil is in the detail, meaning that there can be quite a distinction in the wording of a contract as between the words “lump sum” and the words “fixed sum” or between the word “, jurisdiction” or “exclusive jurisdiction” or , whether or not a contract compels parties to settle disputes via adjudication, say by use of the word must or shall in referring to dispute resolution and so on. If you are struggling to get to grips with some of the detail in a new contract one of the best things you can do is to discuss the contract with your solicitor.
Pursuing Foreign Debtors
Before they speak to us many clients have been told by other firms that they couldn’t pursue debts in Scottish courts because their debtor is based abroad.
Unless, for example, a contract states that all disputes are to be resolved via one particular country’s court system, there are internationally agreed rules as to how debtors can be pursued in a jurisdiction such as Scotland.