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Ceri Bater – Director and Solicitor
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Ceri Bater is a qualified solicitor, with over 15 years experience in litigation matters. She obtained her 2:1 Honours degree from the University of Wales Cardiff and an LPC distinction from the University of West of England, whilst working as a paralegal at Morgan Cole (now Blake Morgan LLP).
She undertook her training contract with Rickerby Watterson Solicitors in Cheltenham before qualifying with international law firm Eversheds LLP in 2002 where she then remained for 12 years, working as a Senior Associate specialising in insurance claims, financial services dispute resolution and professional negligence.  Ceri managed a team of solicitors and paralegals, acting on behalf of high street banks pursuing negligence and breach of contract claims against other professionals and recovered damages in excess of £4,000,000.  Ceri is experienced in group and bespoke litigation and works with mediators to settle disputes without litigation where possible.
Since leaving Eversheds LLP in 2014 she has built up her own practice locally assisting individual clients, entrepreneurs and SMEs with commercial, employment and litigation matters and is continuing to work alongside these clients and new clients offering a specialist range of services covering:
  • Commercial and Civil Dispute Resolution
  • Debt Recovery Services
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Professional Negligence
  • Employment Law
John Watkins – Consultant Senior Solicitor
John has extensive experience in resolving commercial disputes, having worked at one of the world’s leading international law firms. He has represented a wide range of clients from multi-national investment banks and Premier League football clubs to small businesses and individuals.

He always focuses on obtaining the best commercial outcome for his clients and often achieves this through early negotiation or mediation. Sometimes disputes require a determination by a court and he have represented clients in the County Court, High Court (Administrative, Queen’s Bench and Chancery Divisions), Court of Appeal and the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Recommended Lawyer in the Legal 500: “A ‘very capable litigator’, the ‘technically accomplished’ Watkins is noted for his ‘particular strength at handling professional negligence cases’.

John can assist with:

Asset tracing
Banking disputes
Company, Director, Shareholder and Partnership disputes
Competition
Contractual disputes
Debt Recovery
Defamation
Fraud
Injunctions especially Freezing Orders but also Search Orders and other commercial injunctions
Judicial Review
Professional negligence
Property disputes

Nicola Caluan – Consultant Chartered Legal Executive

Nicola is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Legal Executives, qualifying in 2003.  Nicola specialises in all aspects of litigation, gaining significant experience working for Eversheds LLP for 14 years in the Financial Services Dispute Resolution Team where she specialised in banking and financial services litigation (both unsecured and secured finance) on behalf of major financial companies. Her work involved every stage of the litigation process in addition to pre-litigation and post litigation (to include different methods of enforcement).

Reported Cases:

The work included some complex litigation with one case in particular being reported and remains as good authority on the question of capitalisation and securitisation [Santander -v- Harrison and Another [2013] EWHC 199 (QB) 7 February 2013].

Nicola can assist with:

Debt recovery

Breach of contract matters

Dispute Resolution

Financial Services litigation

Professional Negligence

Landlord & Tenant disputes including possession proceedings and enforcement

Property litigation

Lauren Minoli – Legal Assistant

Lauren obtained her LLB Law degree at Swansea University.  Lauren works as a Legal Assistant for Bater Law specialising in: pre-legal debt collection and commercial recovery to include High Court enforcement plus property litigation including possession and eviction where necessary.

Bater Law Ltd work alongside other solicitor firms so that if they cannot assist with your query they have trusted partners who they have worked with for many years and can refer you to them with full confidence that they will look after you.  Bater Law Ltd do not pay or receive any referral fees.

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Ceri Bater is a qualified solicitor, with over 15 years experience in litigation matters.















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