Hawkswell Kilvington is a niche firm of award winning, specialist solicitors with an established national reputation for providing legal services to the construction and engineering industries.
We provide advice and solutions in all areas of construction and engineering law, from drafting, reviewing and amending bespoke and standard form construction contracts and sub-contracts to resolving construction and engineering disputes through adjudication, mediation, negotiation, arbitration and litigation.
Our team of professional and highly experienced lawyers have an up-to-date and in-depth knowledge of the latest legal developments and adopt a pragmatic, commercial and cost-effective approach to solving clients’ problems. We offer a personal service and a high level of partner involvement that larger firms cannot offer. Our aim is to always be accessible and for our clients to know who is actually doing the work for them.
In the recent case of Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd -v- Peel L&P Investments and Property Ltd, the TCC looked at the construction of liquidated damages provisions through the lenses of contractual uncertainty and limitation of liability. Background Buckingham Group Contracting […]
Hawkswell Kilvington have been making a huge effort to reduce our carbon footprint and are pleased to announce that we have achieved the Carbon Neutral Plus Standard.
It is often said that an adjudicator’s decision is of ‘temporary finality’. That is to say, it is contractually binding upon the parties unless and until their underlying dispute is finally determined by way of arbitration or litigation. But quite […]
