Services

Doyles is a specialist construction law firm where personal attention to clients’ needs is a top priority. The firm services organisations involved in the municipal, construction, engineering and development industries, dealing with matters from project planning and contract development through to completion, maintenance and management.

Doyles focuses on service, which is:

  • Pro-active;
  • User-friendly;
  • Commercially focused; and
  • Founded on special expertise.

Contract Structuring

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers are able to ensure to optimise risk allocation and efficient project management. The correct business structure reflects a balance of control, tax efficiency, and asset protection.

A proper structure plans for growth and enables fair and effective distributions of benefits among the internal stakeholders.

Where, in the preparation or administration of contracts, difficulties arise involving complex or technical issues of contract law, we are able to advise our clients on the issues without losing sight of the overall commercial position.

Contract Documentation

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers are able to select and modify standard form documentation and to develop customised contract documentation to suit the project or the enterprise.

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers is well experienced over many years in designing and drafting contracts, including: design and construct, guaranteed maximum price, novated, and incentivised contracts.

If the client has elected to use one of the standard contracts common in the industry, then we can develop amendments directed to manage at a client’s particular exposure in the relevant circumstances.

Development Planning & Approval

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers is able to provide clients with up-to-date advice on compliance with environmental and planning laws and assistance with obtaining development approval, including conducting appeals.

Doyles advises from the inception through to the final delivery of the project. This includes the acquisition of development property, obtaining development approval from Council and regulatory authorities, negotiating with Council, representation at Council meetings, and, where necessary, planning appeals.

The firm has in-depth experience in procuring all types of development approval, including residential, commercial, and industrial developments.

Contract Delivery Advice

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers is able to provide advice on contract administration, claims detection, assessment, and prevention, claims negotiation, and strategy.

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers has had long and varied claims experience in projects of all descriptions, high-rise buildings, civil projects, infrastructure, mining, offshore, and marine projects.

Because construction does not take place in isolation from the business community, commercial issues may impinge upon a project.

Additional areas of law include issues in the area of trade practices, intellectual and other industrial property rights, industrial relations, environmental law, and property law, to name just a few.

Dispute Resolution

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers is able to design appropriate dispute resolution plans encompassing litigation, arbitration, expert determination, or alternative dispute resolution for construction claims, professional indemnity and other insurance claims (including conduct of proceedings in all jurisdictions and in arbitration), with a preference for cost-effective mediation or alternative dispute resolution.

The firm has considerable experience in the conduct of litigation at all levels of jurisdiction

And often appears as counsel and in most interlocutory hearings.

Our solicitors are also experienced in using alternative methods to litigation in order to resolve disputes.

Their experience in the areas of mediation and commercial negotiation often helps to achieve more client-satisfactory results more promptly than the formal litigation process. Experience shows that early identification of disputes is essential to their minimisation and ultimately leads, to a successful project.

Our role at this time is twofold: we identify any technical steps that must be taken under the contract, and we work with our clients to achieve a satisfactory and early resolution of disputes.

Doyles Arbitration Lawyers has had extensive experience in all alternative dispute resolution processes, including mediation, arbitration, and expert determination.

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