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As someone looking for advocacy advice, it is essential you get seamless legal representation, efficiency, accessibility and speed.

CMS has extensive advocacy experience in courts and tribunals across the United Kingdom on a broad range of matters. These include commercial contracts, construction and engineering, oil and gas, employment, fatal accident inquiries, judicial review, personal injury and property damage, planning and consenting, and public procurement.

Provides an ‘excellent partner-led service’, has a strong track record representing energy and financial services clients in high-stakes disputes.
Legal 500, 2015

Our counsel work as part of the Disputes Team, operating as one. This way our clients receive the benefits of both counsel and lawyers.

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23/11/2022
Pro­tec­tion from protest
Protest on the streets, protest on­line, even lit­ig­a­tion used as a vehicle for protest.Protest­ors tar­get­ing a busi­ness may be stand­ing in a crowd, hold­ing a plac­ard or shout­ing slo­gans. But they may also be be­hind a com­puter screen or pur­su­ing a claim against the busi­ness through the courts. They may even be work­ing in­side the busi­ness, pre­par­ing to com­prom­ise its sys­tems or leak con­fid­en­tial in­form­a­tion.Wheth­er they are act­iv­ists, em­ploy­ees or cus­tom­ers, all these protest­ors may present a sub­stan­tial chal­lenge and a real threat to busi­nesses, in areas in­clud­ing its se­cur­ity, repu­ta­tion and bot­tom line. 
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10/09/2020
Priv­ilege: What you need to know
The last couple of years have seen some im­port­ant de­vel­op­ments in Eng­lish case law in the area of leg­al pro­fes­sion­al priv­ilege, from the Court of Ap­peal over­turn­ing a re­strict­ive in­ter­pret­a­tion of lit­ig­a­tion...
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18/04/2017
Dis­putes di­gest
Wel­come to our Spring edi­tion of Dis­putes Di­gest. In this edi­tion, we look back at 2016 and sum­mar­ise the key lit­ig­a­tion and ar­bit­ra­tion cases of 2016 for cor­por­ate coun­sel to be aware of. We also...
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29/09/2016
Dis­putes di­gest
Wel­come to the fourth edi­tion of Dis­putes Di­gest, fea­tur­ing com­ment­ary and ana­lys­is on the latest de­vel­op­ments in dis­pute res­ol­u­tion across the UK and bey­ond.Over the sum­mer, the de­bate over the leg­al...
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25/11/2015
Dis­putes Di­gest - cur­rent leg­al is­sues af­fect­ing the mar­ket
This edi­tion con­tains up­dates and com­ment­ary on a range of is­sues, in­clud­ing art­icles on the High Court’s ‘Fin­an­cial List’ which is now up and run­ning, cur­rent trends in pen­sions lit­ig­a­tion, key...
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