The Dispute Resolution team has many years’ experience of advocacy before the Guernsey and English Courts. All of the lawyers within the team are fully qualified English solicitors or barristers.

Collas Day in Guernsey merged with Crill Canavan in Jersey to form Collas Crill on 4 April 2011. This is the first edition of what will be a regular Collas Crill Employment Newsletter. We will keep you up to date with news and best practic...

Welcome to the first Risk and Regulatory update for 2012 from Collas Crill's Risk and Regulatory team.    In this edition, we pick up a number of topics that crossed our desks or otherwise came to prominence during the fourth quarter o...

One of the more unfortunate things businesses have to contemplate these days is the prospect of clients not paying their bills which can mean the creditor is in danger of being insolvent, placing pressure on longstanding business and personal relationships. In this guide we hope to give our readers a refresher course on Guernsey’s insolvency laws.

Collas Crill Dispute Resolution offers an effective one-stop service to assist in the avoidance or resolution of any contentious issue.

You act for a Claimant in litigation or arbitration proceedings. You have obtained judgment against the Defendant/Respondent. You have ascertained that the Defendant has assets residing in Guernsey. Once you have “frozen” those assets, how do you recover them by enforcing your judgment/award?

Much has been made of the recent Court of Appeal decision relating to the dismissal of Sharon Shoesmith from her post as director of Haringey Children’s Services. A post in which she earned £133,000 a year. Emma Parr looks at the importance of ensuring fair procedure in dismissals.

Simon Hurry considers a ground-breaking decision by the Guernsey Court of Appeal.

With a rising demand for asset tracing and recovery processes Collas Crill has seen a greater use of mirror injunctions and insolvency-related tracing and recovery applications over the past two years. In this roundtable discussion facilitated by Financier Worldwide, dispute resolution partner Christian Hay discusses the demand for asset-tracing and recovery services in the Channel Islands, the cost and benefits of the process and how difficult it is to accurately trace the movement of cash and assets in fraud-related cases.

Simon Hurry reviews the new 2010 provisions in Jersey’s Health and Safety Law come into force, strengthening the island’s health and safety regulations for the benefit of both employers and employees.

In a recent decision Guernsey's Employment and Discrimination Tribunal dismissed an applicant's claim for unfair dismissal and held that the respondent employer had acted reasonably in treating the applicant's misconduct as a sufficient reason for his dismissal. Emma Parr explains the decision but issues a word of warning to employers: always be mindful to adopt fair disciplinary procedures.

On 17 June 2011 the Employment Awards Amendment (Jersey) Order 2011 came into force. This amendment equips the Jersey Employment Tribunal with additional powers to award monetary sums to a successful applicant. In this article Simon Hurry explores these powers.

Michael Adkins sees light at the end of the tunnel for those affected by an ‘informal freeze’ following disclosure to the financial crime authorities, when the Royal Court of Guernsey quashed a refusal to release funds after an 8 year restraint.

Much has been made in recent years of the desirability of mediation as a means of resolving disputes without resorting to litigation. In general terms, mediation has many advantages: it is quick to arrange, confidential, without prejudice and can be completely private should the parties wish it to be.

The States of Guernsey and the GFSC have confirmed that it was not Guernsey’s present intention to seek third country equivalence under the EU’s ‘Solvency 2’ directive. Industry groups and trade publications in Guernsey and other offshore jurisdictions have applauded this strong clarifying statement, coming after what has been a concerted lobbying effort at local level. Michael Adkins explores what solvency 2 is, and why equivalence is not in Guernsey’s interests.