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Roythornes Solicitors Offices
Incubator 2, The Boulevard
Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald
Huntingdon
PE28 4XA
England
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Alex Forster
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Alex studied law at Nottingham Trent University, graduating with a first class honours degree in July 2012 and going on to complete his LPC part-time at Nottingham Law School. He obtained a distinction whilst working in a small, niche litigation practice with offices in London and Lincolnshire.
Alex joined Roythornes in February 2017 having qualified with a Lincolnshire firm in August 2016. He works closely with Peter Cusick, advising on disputes including:
- professional negligence;
- banking litigation;
- insurance;
- breach of contract;
- construction and engineering;
- partnership disputes;
- company disputes (including both shareholder and director disputes);
- agency law;
- Rural Payment Agency appeals;
- judicial review.
His recent work includes:
- advising a UK based construction firm in relation to a final account dispute in excess of £400,000. This dispute was the subject of arbitration proceedings in Milan, Italy;
- advising on a successful enforcement of an adjudication award in the Technology & Construction Court. This specific case was in relation to whether a second adjudicator’s decision contradicted the first adjudicator’s decision and whether the second adjudicator’s decision was enforceable;
- advising on a professional negligence claim in excess of £2m against a firm of solicitors. This related to the negligent drafting of a loan agreement and the subsequent failure to register a charge on a property in Knightsbridge, London;
- advising on a professional negligence claim against an architect for exceeding the scope of his instructions and the subsequent negligent drawings produced;
- advising a minority shareholder and former director of a limited company as to whether the limited company was a quasi-partnership and the effect of his removal as a director. Thereafter advising and issuing an Unfair Prejudice Petition under s.994 Companies Act 2006;
•advising in respect of judicial review proceedings in relation to the New Forest rights of common and subsequent SPS subsidy payments (R (on the application of Imogen Bickford-Smith) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2013] EWHC 3371 (Admin)).
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
A key port of call for various blue-chip companies, Roythornes Solicitors is well versed in professional negligence, company disputes, shareholder disputes and general commercial litigation. More specifically, the team is noted for its capabilities in agricultural commercial litigation, acting for farmers, landowners, and various joint venture companies. Spalding-based Peter Cusick appears in complex cases against the Rural Payments Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, particularly regarding fruit and vegetable producer organisations and subsidies. Alconbury-based Alex Forster focuses on construction litigation.
East Anglia > Real estate > Construction
Roythornes Solicitors offers clients ‘true construction expertise and skills’, frequently advising on contractual matters and representing contractors and systems integrators in matter concerning automated order fulfilment centres in UK and Northern Europe. The group also assists housebuilders and clients in the food and agriculture sectors. In Alconbury, Alex Forster handles a variety of disputes, and Martin Jinks recently assisted Naylor Nutrition Group Ltd with the design and construction of a new plant.
East Anglia > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia
(Next Generation Partners)Roythornes Solicitors‘ team is handling a growing number of disputes from its Alconbury office. The firm frequently acts for blue-chip companies in complex and high-value claims, including company disputes, shareholder disputes and general commercial litigation matters. Peter Cusick in Spalding and the ‘calm, likeable, and very commercial‘ Alex Forster in Alconbury co-lead the practice, which has ‘proper experience of judicial review, the administrative court and European law’.