Serle Court Online Resolution features in The Global Legal Post

Serle Court’s Online Resolution service, set up by John Machell QC, Jennifer Haywood, and James Mather has been highlighted in The Global Legal Post this week. Described as an ‘off-the-shelf’ service, the team offers to resolve disputes within 8- days at a fixed arbitration fee.

The initiative behind the service comes from calls by a group of senior UK judges for ‘breathing space’ in commercial contract disputes, to avoid courts becoming overwhelmed with cases. John Machell QC explains “Even where parties have not elected to arbitrate in advance of a dispute, they can do so on an ad hoc basis after the dispute has arisen; they can also agree to replace a reference to one of the arbitration bodies with an ad hoc arrangement."

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John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.

John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.

A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.