Lee Stutt

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT LEE STUTT

I’ve cornered Cornwall for resolving civil claims. As a CMC commercial mediator, parties and lawyers who are past talking to their opponents turn to me to explore settlement opportunities that they can’t broach themselves, protecting them from the unpredictable hands of a trial judge.But not everything can be settled without exercising serious leverage, if it can be settled at all.Helpfully therefore, as a litigation solicitor with 20+ years of real, national, Court experience, I’ve acquired an unusually wide exposure to disputes of all types, and instincts and insights on how to cut through to the core, closing them down clinically, or leveraging them to a position of settlement potential.And I understand that my first duty is to get the best result possible for my clients, no one else.I’ve been in the Court of Appeal twice, the Chancery Division many times and the County Courts more times than I can remember.I acted, with successful outcomes, in the leading authorities in laches in Probate claims (James -v- Scudamore), the form for appealing a Party Wall Award (Zissis -v- Lukomski), contractual prerequisites for a s146 Notice (Toms -v- Ruberry), the requirement of an attesting witness to a will to give evidence at trial (Dunstan -v- Ball), and properly refusing mediation when offered cynically (Ellis -v- Ellis).And I use that experience to deliver mediation outcomes too.If you need a mediator who can work with you and your clients to set the right tone, call me to explore a resolution and see whether I’ve got the personality and style you need.If you need a litigator who’ll take a case however far it needs to go to get the outcome needed, call me to discuss strategic moves.I like to spend my spare time all-grain brewing with a Grainfather G40 (with mixed success), watching MotoGP (much to my family\'s confusion), and trickle charging my 1997 Ducati ST2, which I will properly use next Summer, I promise.