Solicitors Chester

Solicitors Chester

Ballantyne Grant is a niche litigation solicitors in Chester , established by Andrew Grant.  With 20 years experience we are confident that we can deal with just about any problem that you may have covering a wide range of practice areas. For details of what we can do for you please see our services page. Our [...]

Without prejudice

Without prejudice

But not without opinion. We hope you find our website a useful resource and our senior partner Andrew Grant’s regular editorials, ‘Grant-Ed’ offer additional comment and insight. If you’d like to receive updates automatically from Ballantyne Grant then register to receive our short e-newsletter, subscribe to our RSS feed, or follow Andrew Grant on Twitter where he is @agrantlitigator.

Commercial Legal Consultancy

Commercial Legal Consultancy

    For most companies incurring legal fees is a last resort. The reality is that good advice, contractual documents and processes can drastically reduce the likelihood of disputes and minimise the likelihood of them leading to formal litigation. Ballantyne Grant offer fixed price consultancy allowing companies to ensure they have the right tools for the job.

Legal Document Packages

Legal Document Packages

  For many businesses the expense of having their basic legal documents drawn up means that they trade with cobbled together contractual documents pinched from a competitor or from a website. Unfortunately, when you need them they tend to let you down. Ballantyne Grant offer a range of pre-prepared document packages guaranteed to ensure that [...]

Employment Litigation

Employment Litigation

  Redundancy or dismissal are rarely a pleasant experience for either side. Over the years Ballantyne Grant have acted both for employees and employers large and small successfully negotiating amicable compromise agreements for individuals and groups, or when things are less amicable establishing potential grounds for employment litigation and preparing and litigating cases at Tribunals. [...]


Debt Collection Service

Debt Collection Service

As a commercial-savvy legal practice, we can offer you a comprehensive debt recovery service.

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What is litigation?

What is litigation ?

  What do we mean when we call ourselves litigators and why does it take a litigation specialist to do the job right?

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Clients & Work

Clients & Work – Litigation Specialists

Read more about the sectors in which we work, the clients we work with and examples of cases we have dealt with. Ballantyne Grant are litigation specialists that operate throughout the UK.

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Contact Us

Contact Us

Ballantyne Grant practice in the ancient city of Chester with offices in King’s Buildings, King Street in the city centre.

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Recent Articles

Intellectual Property Disputes – Consider the alternatives.

Intellectual property disputes can be hugely expensive cases to fight. For a small business it may be simply impossible to fund an action even if you are the innocent victim. If you can’t protect your IP rights it may finish off the business altogether. Therefore , if you are a small business involved in an IP [...]

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End of Lease – Do not overlook the issue of dilapidations

Ballantyne Grant recently acted for a national retailer in a claim for dilapidations arising at the conclusion of a commercial lease. In consequence of the tenants failure to observe the covenants under the lease the landlord served a schedule of dilapidations which was in the region of £60,000.The tenant failed to pay and court proceedings were [...]

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Busy start to the year at Ballantyne Grant.

Recent weeks have seen a string of successes for Ballantyne Grant and it’s clients. We have recently secured settlements that run into several  hundred thousand pounds for clients that have been let down by their solicitors. Professional negligence claims are demanding as insurers never settle early and almost always force the Claimant to issue court proceedings [...]

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Important deadline for claims – Don’t miss out.

The Legal Aid , Sentencing and Punishment Of Offenders  Act 2012 is due for implementation on the 1st April 2013. At first glance you may be forgiven for thinking that it has little application to civil claims, but you would be wrong. Very wrong. The act does away with recovery of success fees in most litigation and also [...]

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