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Harpreet Giani

Harpreet Giani

  • Contract Law
  • Divorce
  • Family & Children
  • Property, Chancery & Trusts
  • Wills & Probate

Summary

Harpreet appears in the High Court and the County Court across the country and is frequently instructed in particularly complex cases requiring creative and 'out of the box' consideration. Harpreet has a broad practice including; business and commercial litigation, family law (financial settlement and children), employment law, and media and defamation.

Specialist areas of law include

  • Contract Law
  • Divorce
  • Family & Children
  • Property, Chancery & Trusts
  • Wills & Probate

Profile description

Divorce and financial settlement

Harpreet has extensive experience of divorce and matrimonial proceedings (financial settlement). He is content to accept instructions from Applicants and Respondents to deal with proceedings from the First Directions Appointment (FDA), to Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR) and Final Hearing.

Harpreet's caseload includes proceedings featuring high value and complex assets including pensions, businesses and property (including property held overseas). He also has experience of dealing with enforcement proceedings relating to financial orders and has dealt with applications to vary long-standing orders due to a material change to the circumstances of one or other party to the order.

  • Business assets
  • Pensions
  • Non-disclosure
  • Non-matrimonial property 
  • Overseas business and property assets (Harpreet is happy to accept instructions in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu)
  • Variation applications
  • Applications to intervene
  • Maintenance pending suit
  • Enforcement

He has worked with clients from a wide range of backgrounds and is experienced in dealing with various cultural issues that arise from divorce proceedings.

Children Act 

Harpreet is frequently instructed to advise and represent clients in relation to contested child arrangement order proceedings (contact and residence) and the associated injunctive remedies that often crop up in such cases, for example prohibited steps orders, non-molestation orders and occupation orders.

Harpreet's child arrangements practice includes:

  • Child Arrangement Orders (contact and residence)
  • Parental responsibility
  • Prohibited Steps Orders
  • Specific Issue Orders
  • Non-molestation and Occupation Orders
  • Applications to enforce

Harpreet offers considerable experience of proceedings featuring allegations of domestic violence and abuse (including substance abuse) and welcomes instructions to represent clients in contested fact-finding hearings.

Civil litigation, Property, Media & Defamation

Harpreet is a highly experienced commercial litigator and accept instructions to advise and represent clients across a wide range of civil disputes including the following areas:

  • Business and commercial law (including cross-border inter-jurisdictional disputes)
  • General civil litigation including breach of contract, debt recovery, landlord and tenant
  • Trusts, wills and probate
  • Defamation
  • Media, information and data protection law
  • Financial services
  • Bankruptcy and Insolvency
  • Information Technology 

Harpreet's diet of civil work typically includes complex and high value claims relating to commercial law and the frequently overlapping areas of property, land, chancery/trusts. 

In addition to contentious cases, he also regularly advises on transactional and commercial issues. Harpreet offers pragmatic advice to his clients where settlement is a possibility but also relishes attending court to deal with contested hearings where he can be relied upon to deploy his robust advocacy skills to very good effect.

Employment law

Harpreet has a significant amount of experience in employment law and has provided representation for clients (claimants and respondents) in complex and high value claims. Harpreet is also experienced in providing representation for clients at Judicial Mediation and has a good track record of helping clients to reach early settlement on employment law claims.

Particular areas of expertise:

  • Unfair dismissal claims
  • Constructive dismissal claims   
  • High value complex claims
  • Whistleblowing claims
  • Discrimination claims

Indian laws

As a qualified Indian advocate, Harpreet also provides seamless expert advice on Indian laws, and representation in Indian courts. Harpreet has been instructed as a single or joint expert for providing reports to courts on Indian law, on subjects including inheritance, matrimonial law, criminal law, corporate law, trust law etc.

Recent cases

  • Advised in the matter of the estate of a deceased person who had property and assets globally, including India.
  • Advised in the case of a testamentary trust set up by the will of an English deceased person in India.
  • Represented the defendants (led junior) in a case concerning the religious nature and ownership of a group of temples in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and High Wycombe.
  • Represented the Part 20 defendants in a dispute over the validity of the election process of the management of the Sikh temple/Gurdwara.
  • Successfully defended in a bribery case involving stolen computer data
  • Ongoing litigation in India, representing the client who fled India, received political asylum in Germany and now lives in UK. He has multiple terrorism, arms act and other criminal cases pending in India.
  • Represented (led junior) a client in the first ever copy-cat website trial.

Languages

Harpreet is a dual qualified barrister, having been called to the bar in India in 1999 and in England & Wales in 2006. Harpreet speaks and understands Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi.

Academics

  • B.A. (Panjab)
  • LL.B. (Panjab),
  • Master of Business Laws (National Law School, India),
  • LL.M. (London School of Economics)
  • Certification in International law (Hague Academy of International Law)
  • Certification in Sharia Law (International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy)

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