About Us - Co-habitation Property Disputes

This is a UK site that offers free help and advice on bringing or defending claims in the courts of England & Wales. The aim is to provide you with everything you need (with links to relevant sites) so that you can do it all yourself. If you want supplementary advice and support on top of this basic support we offer this at a reduced hourly rate of £150 + VAT, by phone call or Skype. (Please ensure that you email all relevant documents and the short story of the case before the call.)

It is best not to use a lawyer to represent you outright if you have a small claim but occasionally focused and limited representation for specific aspects of your case can be helpful (representation at trial or drafting your pleadings, for example). We can of course help with this too at the relevant time.

Whilst this site is aimed primarily at small claims, it is the same court system and the same law whatever the claim value and this site is therefore of relevance to any general litigation, whatever the claim value. In higher claim values the matter will go onto a fast track or multi-track system where it is preferable to use a lawyer and where you will get your legal costs back if you win.

(The main difference with the small claims process is that you cannot claim your legal fees if you choose to be represented, even if you win your case, so it is designed to keep lawyers away.)

This Small Claims Support Service & General Litigation is an initiative of Redwood Legal Limited, a law firm of solicitors registered in England & Wales (registration number 08534829). Directors: Alex Woods and Richard Parsons. Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority SRA No. 627297.

You can find out more about our firm and our people at www.redwoodlegal.co.uk

Redwood Legal

Redwood Legal is built on the principle of civil litigation as an entrepreneurial activity in which the law firm is prepared to take a share of the risk where a case has merit and champion their clients’ cases. Redwood Legal acts primarily for individuals and small businesses against large corporations.

This principle was informed by the early experiences of the founder, Alex Woods, whilst he was a management trainee and in-house lawyer at a manufacturing company in Colchester. This is where he first came across the problem of disputes with better-funded opponents. In this instance a large construction company were able to intimidate his employers into writing off nearly £100,000 worth of work, simply because they had deeper-pockets and threatened huge legal fees if they issued proceedings. His experience of business extends to property. As a director of a property company, The Hold Investment Company, with a portfolio of fifteen commercial properties, he has gained a good understanding of the property sector. He has lived and worked in Southwark, London SE1 for the past twenty years and has good contacts amongst estate agents, developers, landlords and local businesses.

Once a lawyer at Redwood Legal is confident that the case has merit and the client is a determined one that lawyer will fight all the way to trial. Redwood Legal is structured to ensure that the business is sufficiently capitalised to cashflow contingent litigation and to offer No Win No Fee retainers.

You can find out more about us and our people here: info@redwoodlegal.co.uk

Alex Woods

Alex has over 20 years’ litigation experience. As well as his experience in the fields of crime, fraud, financial irregularity, personal injury and general litigation he has a strong grounding in business. He was a management trainee and in-house lawyer with a manufacturing company in Colchester when he first came across the problems small businesses face in disputes with better-funded opponents. As a director of a property company, The Hold Investment Company, with a portfolio of 15 commercial properties, he has gained a good understanding of the property sector. He has lived and worked in Southwark, London SE1 for the past 20 years and has good contacts amongst estate agents, developers, landlords and local businesses.

Alex Woods’ career history has given him an appetite for No Win No Fee litigation. His simply principle in litigation is to be thoroughly prepared before issuing proceedings and to have a realistic view of the likely value of the claim. Once he is confident that the case has merit and the client is determined he is prepared to fight all the way to trial. He has structured his business to ensure it is sufficiently capitalised to do so as his experience is that law firms are often reluctant to run no win no fee because they do not know how to cashflow such cases.

Alex also has an interest in the film and television sector. He has won awards both in the UK and Canada, where he has a feature film commissioned as a producer and creator. He speaks French, enjoys squash and ski-ing and is also interested in philosophy, storytelling and meditation.

Alex also runs a YouTube channel on various aspects of the law. He has appeared on television on the BBC programme, “Rip Off Britain!” as a financial mis-selling expert.

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