Lengthy

Court proceedings are extremely time consuming and the focus becomes not on settlement, but on your distant day in court. It is also a very stressful process, which you must endure for many months with huge personal and commercial distraction.

 

Inflexible

A court ruling can only respond to the specific question brought before court. You are thereby bound by strict parameters, making a mutually beneficial outcome less likely, as it is not in the court's remit to envisage a solution.

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Cost prohibitive

If successful, you only exceptionally recover all your costs. However, if unsuccessful you generally pay the other side’s costs as well. 

 

High Risk

You are in the hands of the Judge and his/her opinion of the evidence presented. You have to be in a position to fund proceedings for the duration, at the risk of the Judge not finding in your favour. 

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Public

Matters relating to your dispute will become a matter of public record.