Deborah is a Partner in our dispute resolution team based in the Canterbury office.

Deborah acts for a wide range of business clients helping them to resolve their disputes.  She has a sound knowledge and experience of the following areas of dispute:

• Contracts
• Company and partnership disputes
• Restrictive covenants
• Health and safety
• Professional negligence
• Judicial review
• Regulatory breaches
• Injunctions
• Equine disputes
• Environmental
• Mediation
• Intellectual property
• Acting for schools
• Acting for care homes

Deborah’s understanding of business priorities means that she strives to achieve the most commercial solution for her clients.  She progresses matters through informal negotiations, mediation or court proceedings, as appropriate.

Deborah has been involved in many high value and complex disputes which she handles with confidence.  Clients comment on her approachability and the clear way in which she is able to explain and then execute her strategy for resolving their disputes.

Experience

• High success rate at court
• Many profitable deals brokered for clients at mediation
• Particular expertise acting for care homes and schools
• Noted particularly for her ability to work under pressure in emergency situations
• Defence of health and safety prosecutions and environmental prosecutions
• Recognised in the Legal 500 guide for lawyers as “very bright and hard-working”

Deborah is also responsible for organising the firm’s events at both the East Kent Ploughing Match and also Aldington Races.  She also devotes significant time to the development and engagement of staff across the firm.

• Health & Safety Lawyers Association

• Judge at the Kent Excellence in Business Awards

• 7Thirty

• Business Over Breakfast

• Governor at Ashford School

• Supporter of the Young Lives Foundation

• Thinking of returning staff to the office?
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