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Commercial Awareness Compass

Abuse of process: Irwin Mitchell on the commercial cost of vexatious claims

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Hannah Lambert & Tom Paton

Hannah Lambert is an Associate Solicitor in the Restructuring and Insolvency team at Irwin Mitchell. She specialises in contentious insolvency, with experience in court claims, complex legal investigations and bankruptcy matters. Tom Paton is a Partner at Irwin Mitchell specialising in corporate recovery and insolvency. He advises insolvency practitioners, banks, companies, individuals and creditors on a range of insolvency matters, with particular expertise in contentious insolvency.

Published Thu, 13 Aug

For top insolvency practitioners, like those at Irwin Mitchell, frivolous, repeated and often abusive legal claims can unsettle what would otherwise be routine court applications. 

These claims, brought by vexatious litigants, bring severe commercial disruption, spiralling costs and bring businesses to administrative paralysis.

When individuals misuse the courts, lawyers go from resolving genuine legal disputes to managing persistent tactical obstruction. Irwin Mitchell have joined us to explain how commercial lawyers identify these patterns of behaviour early and the practical mechanisms they employ to limit this. 

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