Our clients include several foreign Embassies in the UK which we have advised on Diplomatic relations and immunities and the application of UK Law to non-nationals.

We also represent foreign nationals with regard to company formations, property purchases, probate matters and provide advice on UK law.

The work of the Immigration and Nationality team includes a large amount of appeal work before the Immigration Appellate Authority, Immigration Adjudicator and Immigration Appeals Tribunal. The team represented the appellant in the landmark case of “The Queen Ex-parte Harris” at the Court of Appeal, where the court declared illegal the government’s practice of denying re-entry into the UK to persons with indefinite leave to remain who had been convicted by UK courts of criminal offences.

The team also advises corporate clients on immigration for businessmen, including advice in connection with living and working in the UK, Work Permits, Expatriate Quota, Training and Work Experience Permits, family visas for company executives working in the UK.

Our team liaises with the European Union, Home Office and Department for Education and Employment on rules of European Union nationals, Nationality and Naturalisation, Setting up in business and investor rules in the EU. As a result we are up to date with relevant changes to policies, procedures and rules.

We are able to provide advice on the protection and registration of trademarks and copyrights across many jurisdictions. We draw upon the expertise of an established and focused team of practitioners who have distinguished themselves in different areas of trademark (including software) licensing and franchising agreements for many years. Our area of specialisation includes

Registration of Patents, registered designs, trademarks and domain names

Protection of copyright, registered designs, patents, trademarks

Trademarks infringements, opposition and rectification proceedings.

Anti-counterfeiting and custom actions.

Software licensing and different forms of franchising agreements.

Advertising, entertainment and media law.

The Litigation Practice group is founded on the belief that a failure to anticipate and properly manage legal risks will adversely impact performance and profitability. To this end, our priority is to avert potential commercial disaster by uncovering hidden legal “time bombs”, which can lead to costly delays, expensive and damaging litigation. We aim primarily to help our clients avoid litigation. When litigation becomes inevitable, we will vigorously defend their interest wherever and whenever threatened.

We advise on all aspects of litigation and arbitration proceedings as well as dealing with substantive matters in the Supreme Court and lower Courts involving:

Commercial Disputes

Financial Services Recovery.

Employment

Landlord and Tenants

Personal Injury cases

Employers and employees alike have faced a bewildering wealth of new rules and practices in recent years as the UK government has adopted and enacted a raft of European Union led employment legislation as well as pursuing its own agenda. The Employment Group at Hackman Solicitors is known for its practical approach to solving employment and industrial relations problems for clients - an approach which has resulted in our developing long-term relationships with clients.

Our lawyers deal with a wide range of employment issues spanning contentious, non-contentious and advisory matters. We provide appropriate expertise and experience in all areas of employment law, including the following:

Employment Tribunal Claims (particularly redundancy, wrongful/constructive dismissal, unfair dismissal and discrimination, whether racial, sexual or due to disability);

Handbooks and Policies provision

Substantial breach of contract claims

Terms of Employment

The Property Practice team combines technical legal expertise with commercial awareness in providing advice on both Conveyancing and Commercial Property transactions. Our property experts are “gifted” with special abilities in risk shifting mechanisms for the benefit of our clients. We ensure that all Conveyancing work is undertaken with great care and skill, especially those cases that involve leases.

A full range of services offered to Commercial property clients include:

Acquisition of land for development

Commercial Leases

Investigation and Review of Title Documents

Landlord and Tenant

This team handles all types of private work particularly:

Acting as Executors and Trustees

Charities

Drawing up wills

Estate Planning

Our criminal law solicitors are experienced in criminal defence work ranging from murder, serious fraud to white collar crimes, offences against the person and serious traffic offences. Our clients can be assured of our commitment to each case and our pro-active approach to defence work.

Our team is able to represent clients facing extradition or governments seeking to extradite individuals. Our expertise includes:

Tracing criminally obtained assets;

Applying for Mareva injunctions;

Conducting investigations for criminal proceedings

Watching briefs in UK courts on behalf of the Nigerian government.

The Oil and Gas team includes lawyers who have advised oil companies operating in oil producing States of Nigeria. We have experience in advising clients in upstream and downstream areas of the oil & gas industry. Our expertise includes the preparation and or verification of contracts for seismic, drilling and development operations, oil and gas sales agreements, joint venture agreements, farm-in agreements and joint operating agreements/unit agreements, royalty agreements and net profits interest agreements, concession agreements/production sharing contracts/buy-back arrangements, oil and gas exploration, production and transportation.