What
We Do
WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT WILL ALWAYS BE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE
We’re just as much about people as we are about law. It’s why we never forget the reason for our business: to serve and work with our clients to secure the best outcomes for them. Most of our clients would describe us as practical and pragmatic, a combination that truly adds value for you or your business.
Rather than work at arms length, we believe that partnership can really take you places. We set out to work closely with our clients so that we can understand exactly what makes them tick and what they need from us.
We will always answer your queries about law and procedure straightforwardly, so you remain fully informed about how we will work together to achieve the desired results.
Dispute Resolution & Litigation
Corporate, trust and commercial litigation
Innova Law has expertise in all aspects of international and domestic commercial litigation. This includes asset and debt recovery proceedings, company liquidations, and personal insolvency, together with pre-action disclosure, and other interlocutory remedies such as freezing orders (POCA or civil claim). We can also help trustees, beneficiaries, and trust protectors in Court litigation.
Public and administrative law
We can act in any Court or Tribunal proceedings involving a statutory right of appeal or a doleance (judicial review) claim. We have previous experience in conducting cases before most of the Island’s statutory Tribunals, having led on numerous cases representing the Government. Our inside expertise will secure early and effective outcomes in challenges to exercise of public and administrative law powers, on procurement and regulatory matters, and on human rights and equalities claims.
Planning and environmental law
Innova Law can offer unrivalled on-Island experience in dealing with planning and environmental matters, having appeared at numerous public inquiries for contentious or large-scale planning applications, planning appeals, and area plans and development orders. We will bring our knowledge to all your planning, waste management, and environment-related matters.
We assisted the Cabinet Office Planning Policy team in their preparation for the two week public inquiry into the draft Area Plan for the North and the West of the Island in July 2024. We are the first local advocates to be instructed to appear for the planning authority in a public inquiry.
Employment
Innova Law can assist with the representation of employers and employees, including all manner of contentious employment-related matters. We have appeared in numerous high-profile employment Tribunal cases, bringing a forensic eye to the details of cases but never losing sight of the bigger human narrative.
Damages litigation
We will bring our hard-learned expertise in dispute resolution strategy and practice to provide effective representation in all types of damages claims before the High Court, whether they be clinical or professional negligence, breach of contract, or otherwise.
Business & Corporate
Corporate, trust and commercial
We can help individuals and businesses of any size or type with reviews and drafting of contractual, corporate, and trust documentation. We can also advise on the transactions to which those documents relate. We have experience in a wide variety of transactions typically undertaken within the regulated sectors.
Innova Law can also help trustees and beneficiaries, company officers and shareholders, lenders, and borrowers.
Given our desire to partner with and grow alongside our clients, we are particularly interested in helping start-up companies reach their potential.
Legal risk and governance; in house support
We have long-standing expertise in assessing and mitigating legal risks for regulated businesses and professionals. We will help with any queries relating to corporate and governance matters.
We also offer a general external counsel service, providing ad hoc or retained support to regulated entities, management boards, in-house counsel, and regulatory support providers. We can help with specific projects, disaster recovery or crisis management, or simply provide a much-needed second opinion.
Employment
We can act upon all employment law issues from drawing up contracts, procedures and policies, right through to more demanding situations of providing advice in situations of redundancy, restructuring, dismissal, discrimination or whistleblowing.
Regulatory and enforcement
Our team has recent and unrivalled experience in acting for Government regulators, something that allows us to ensure that our clients get the best possible outcomes should any enforcement action be undertaken against them or their business. So, whether it be director’s disqualification, fitness/competence proceedings, licensing, or other regulatory intervention, we can help.
Isle of Man start-ups, Infrastructure projects, Immigration and HNWI
As well as unrivalled legal expertise, we have extensive expertise in navigating the structures of Government in the Isle of Man. We can find the right people to make decisions and help with the legal issues that fall to be addressed, whilst readily connecting clients with the right non-legal advisors.