Making Settlement Offers

It’s a fact of professional life that you are likely to find yourself in dispute at some point. The emphasis is on preventing such matters getting to the courts and there are many alternative resolution options available, including a framework for making settlement offers.

Main topics

• Why settle?
• When to make an offer.
• Who should make the offer?
• How to make an offer: Calderbank v CPR Part 36.
• What is being settled?
• What next?
• Alternative dispute resolution.

Emma Humpheys is a partner at Charles Russell Speechlys and a regular contributor to RICS events.