Hawkswell Kilvington is celebrating having won a top award at the prestigious Legal Business Awards. Hawkswell Kilvington scooped the prize for the best Boutique Law Firm Outside of London. The winners were announced at a black-tie event in London on […]

We are thrilled to announce that we are finalists at the Yorkshire Legal Awards in the following categories: 🏆 Law Firm of the Year: Small 🏆 Niche Law Firm of the Year 🏆 Partner of the Year: Rachel Heald This […]

Hawkswell Kilvington is continuing its organic growth policy with the promotion of Prudence Walton and Samantha Murkitt to the role of Associate within the firm’s contentious and non-contentious departments, respectively. Partner at Hawkswell Kilvington, Tom Salter said, “Since joining the firm in 2020, Prudence […]

  The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has announced that the long-awaited 2024 edition of the Design and Build Contract family will be released on 17 April 2024. JCT announced the 2024 Edition last year and, so far, all we know […]

Hawkswell Kilvington are very proud to announce that Rachel Heald, who heads up the non-contentious team, is a finalist in the Mentor of the Year category at the Women, Influence and Power in Law UK Awards taking place next week […]

On 15 February 2024 the Hawkswell Kilvington team participated in the Leeds Business Fives football tournament. The challenge was to be competitive but most important raise more funds for our chosen charity Yorkshire Cancer Research. Four gruelling games later and […]

Harry has joined us a paralegal and will be starting his LPC part-time in September.

We are thrilled to welcome Ella Hindmarsh to Hawkswell Kilvington.  Ella joins our contentious team as a solicitor, and will be resolving disputes via all forms of dispute resolution including adjudication, litigation, arbitration and mediation.

In Bexhill Construction Ltd v Kingsmead Homes Ltd [2023], the TCC held that an adjudicator’s decision was enforceable and rejected arguments that the adjudicator had breached the rules of natural justice by not considering all defences raised. Background Kingsmead Homes […]