OUR LITIGATION TEAM provides legal services to a broad mix of both commercial and private clients. As a medium-sized firm, we can respond swiftly to our clients, meeting the individual needs of our private clients, with confidential, face-to-face personal service and the benefit of our wide-ranging legal expertise that is cost effective for the individual.

Our team runs a busy Personal Litigation practice, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in High Court and Circuit Court actions. We have many years’ of experience in handling:

• Bankruptcy proceedings and insolvency
• Banks: disputes with and matters concerning financial institutions
• Debt recovery in all courts for secured and unsecured debt
• Defamation: both Plaintiff and Defence with particular emphasis on Social Media complaints
• Ecommerce: disputes arising out of online transactions
• Employment and labour law matters and disputes
• Liquor licensing applications
• Product Liability/consumer protection
• Personal Injuries
• Professional negligence
• Public liability claims
• Road traffic actions
• Workplace injuries

We advise private clients in respect of property matters such as:

• Administration of testate/intestate estates; assistance in administration of estates
• Conveyancing
• Commercial Property: purchase and sale of commercial and mixed use property
• Grants of Representation in the UK; extracting Grants
• Landlord & tenant actions
• Leases: commercial and residential Leases
• Mortgages and re-mortgaging of property
• General advices relating to property transactions in France
• Power of attorney: advice on specific, general or enduring power of attorney
• Probate and Succession law
• Probate related litigation
• Rectification and reconstruction of title and planning
• Residential Property: purchase and sale of residential property
• Trusts Deeds
• Wills: drafting wills and preliminary taxation advice

Family Law:

We advise clients in relation to Family Law matters to include Separation and Divorce Proceedings. We can provide advice and legal services in respect of the following:

• Access applications in the District, Circuit and High Courts
• Adoption
• Arbitration and Mediation
• Cohabitation
• Custody: advice on child custody, residence, visitation, child contact, child support
• Custody disputes, custody applications
• Declaration of parentage applications
• Domestic abuse/violence, protection and safety orders, barring orders
• Divorce applications
• Emergency applications, emergency injunctions and emergency procedures for enforcement of child custody, property orders and orders for spousal support
• Guardianship applications on behalf of parents and also family members to include grandparents
• Hague Convention, child abduction applications
• Inheritance: advice on inheritance issues
• Maintenance: applications for maintenance, spousal support, alimony and surrogacy
• Maintenance: applications for maintenance reduction
• Nullity applications
• Pension Adjustment orders, Life Policy orders
• Prenuptial and post nuptial agreements
• Relocation: application regarding relocation and removal from Jurisdiction
• Same-sex partnerships
• Separation: advice on legal issues relating to separation

French, Polish and German spoken at McKeever Solicitors