The Decision Table
Tell us what the business needs, and we build the legal route to it
A contract about to be signed. A partner leaving. A customer who has stopped paying. Someone on the team you have to move on. Whatever the decision is, tell us and we take the legal weight of it off your desk.
- What you want
- The outcome the business needs, in your own words.
- What is pressing
- Any date closing in on you: a signature, a notice period, a payment falling due.
- Who decides
- Who in the company can approve this, and who has to sign it.
Authority
We make sure the right person decides, and that it holds afterwards
Agreeing something is not the same as having the power to sign it. We make sure the person signing actually can, so nobody unpicks the deal a year from now.
- Who is involved
- Owners, directors, managers, and anyone else the decision touches.
- What we check
- Whether your own company rules let this person commit you, and what approval is missing.
- What you get
- A decision nobody can challenge on who made it.
Contracts
We read the contract the way your business will have to live with it
Not clause by clause, but day by day: what you have to do, when the money moves, who carries the risk when it slips, and how you get out. Then we tell you exactly what to change before you sign.
- Before we read
- Tell us what the deal is meant to do for you, and what you cannot give up.
- What we look for
- Where you carry risk nobody paid you for, and where the exit has been closed.
- What you get
- A short note of what to change, and what to say to the other side.
Employment
We get the facts straight before anyone gives you an opinion
Staff decisions get challenged later, not now. We put the contract, the rules and what actually happened side by side, then tell you the safe way to act.
- How it stood
- The contract, the company rules, and what the person was actually hired to do.
- What happened
- The messages, the warnings and the decisions, with their dates.
- What you plan
- What you want to do, and when you have to do it.
Dispute
Before anyone escalates, we make sure your position is solid
A demand sent too early can weaken a good case. We build your position first, then move. Most of the time the other side settles long before this goes near a court.
- What was agreed
- The contract, and anything that changed it afterwards.
- What happened
- What was delivered, what was paid, and what was said between you.
- What you want
- Your money, the relationship, a clean exit, or a fight. We will tell you which is realistic.
Execution
Every piece of work ends with a move you can actually make
No advice that leaves you holding a document and no decision. Every piece of work we do ends with the next step written down, priced, and ready for you to take.
- You tell us
- What the business needs, and by when.
- We look
- At what governs it, and at what is actually in dispute.
- We agree
- Exactly what we will do, what it costs, and what it does not cover.
- You act
- With something you can sign, send or rely on.
Ongoing advice
The everyday questions get a lawyer who already knows your business
The value is not being able to call at midnight. It is never having to explain your company from the beginning again.
- Who can call
- The people in your company we will take questions from.
- What comes first
- What we drop everything for, and what can wait until Thursday.
- What is covered
- The everyday questions. Anything bigger we agree separately and in writing before it starts.
Initial enquiry
Tell us the decision. We will carry everything underneath it
Working in a regulated or specialised sector? See how Haq reads operating contexts.
Tell us the company, what you are planning to do or what has gone wrong, who else is involved, and the next date that matters.
- Tell us
- What the business has to decide, and why it has come up now.
- Name
- Who is involved, and anything you already have in writing.
- Warn us
- Any date that is closing in on you.