Dispute Resolution & Litigation Support
Essca Consulting provides full range of expert services needed to secure decisions in matters being resolved by formal court litigation, arbitration or through other ADR routes. Our programming, contractual and legal skills coupled with our project management experience, enable us to provide clear, objective advice to the contracting parties and their legal advisors.
Once settlement of claims through negotiation has failed and resolution of dispute through dispute resolution mechanism becomes the only possible means of settling disputes, it is at this point that Essca Consulting provide tactical support and techno-legal assistance to our clients and ensure that the proceedings are advanced in a cost effective and efficient manner. We provide guidance and advice through each step of the dispute resolution process and ensure compliance of procedural aspects such as timescales, rules and matters, submissions, roles and responsibilities, attendance at hearings etc. complete.
Our engineering, contractual and techno-legal skills coupled with our extensive project management experience, enable our team of consultants to provide clear, objective advice to our clients and their legal advisors. Our team members carry with them the experience and expertise of dealing more than 130 large value claims in Dispute Review Boards (DRBs) and numerous claims in arbitration and court of law.
Our dispute resolution services are comprehensive and include:
Adjudication:
Our team is highly experienced in managing adjudication proceedings and act in one of four distinct roles – lead party representatives, advisory capacity, independent expert witnesses, and adjudicators – to ensure that complex legal issues are dealt with effectively during the adjudication.
Dispute Resolution Board:
We provide the full range of expert services needed to secure decisions, including dispute strategy and management of proceedings, as well as hearings; written and oral advocacy of case; expert witness reports; dealing with jurisdictional and other types of challenge; amicable settlement and without prejudice negotiations.
Arbitration:
We provide a full managed arbitration service in accordance with the arbitration agreement and the applicable law including guidance and advice through each step of the arbitration process – timescales, procedural rules and matters, submissions, roles and responsibilities of those involved; advice on key appointments: arbitrators, counsel and expert witnesses; organizing hearing venues and transcription services; advice on witnesses of fact and witness statements; fact and expert witnesses; and review and explanation of award.
Litigation:
As part of our litigation support service we provide strategy and technical advice; prepare issue files and requests for admission; answer and prepare interrogatories; assist in depositions; present claims analysis through expert reports and provide expert witness testimony.