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Tina Kumar

Tina Kumar

  • Called to BAR: 2002
  • Company Disputes
  • Consumer Credit
  • Contract Law
  • Defamation
  • Inquests
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy
  • Land
  • Landlord & Tenant (Property)
  • Money Claims & Debt
  • Property, Chancery & Trusts

Summary

Tina practises from 218 Strand, London. Tina has a broad Civil Litigation practice, which includes Property, Employment and Inquest work. Tina has extensive advocacy experience, attending hearings in the High Court, County Courts and Tribunals throughout England & Wales on various interlocutory applications as well as Fast-Track, Multi-Track trials and Permission to Appeal/Appeal hearings.

Specialist areas of law include

  • Company Disputes
  • Consumer Credit
  • Contract Law
  • Defamation
  • Inquests
  • Insolvency & Bankruptcy
  • Land
  • Landlord & Tenant (Property)
  • Money Claims & Debt
  • Property, Chancery & Trusts

Profile description

PROPERTY
• Landlord and Tenant (Residential:  Assured & Assured Shorthold Tenancies) (Commercial:  Business Tenancy renewals, forfeiture, service charge disputes)
• Mortgage possession litigation
• Possession claims against trespassers (private and LPA Receivers)
• Orders for Sale (including applications under TLATA and pursuant to charging orders)
• Social Housing

EMPLOYMENT
• Unfair dismissal
• Constructive dismissal (A very recent example is a 2 day matter which involved Unfair Dismissal, Constructive Dismissal, Discrimination, unlawful deduction from wages; succeeded in securing her client £18,562.63 compensation)
• Disability Discrimination under the Equality Act 210 (recently succeeded on a 3 day trial, securing her client £19,000 compensation)

INQUEST
• Medical:  Representing families in cases that arise from death in hospitals (numerous cases including a 2 day case involving a death of a new born baby in hospital shortly after birth; death of a medical consultant who contracted HIV and subsequently tuberculosis)
• Workplace:  Cases involving industrial disease.
• Prison:  Assisted in cases involving Article 2 ECHR issues relating death in custody (An example includes assisting on a 14 week trial involving death in custody case)

INSOLVENCY
• Applications under the Insolvency Act
• Winding up petitions at the High Court
• Bankruptcy Hearings
• Applications to set aside statutory demands
• Applications to annul bankruptcy orders

COMMERCIAL/CHANCERY
• Interpleaders at the High Court
• Applications under the Companies Act
• Injunctions
• Committals
• Arbitration (Acted for the Forestry Commission in relation to Farm/Woodland Grant Schemes in relation to an Arbitration clause within the contract)
• Instructed by Treasury Solicitors to undertake work under the baby barrister scheme on a Commercial/Construction case

COSTS
• Regularly instructed on Detailed Assessments
• Summary Assessment of costs
• Wasted costs applications
• Costs Budgeting hearings

She is a member of the Free Representation Unit and regularly undertakes work on behalf of the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

She holds a keen interest in Human Rights and International Law which led her to recently work in Lilongwe, with the Ministry of Justice of Malawi as an Assistant Legal Aid Lawyer; working predominantly with male remandees on homicide cases.

Education:           

 LL.M (Queen Mary, University of London)
 LL.B (Hons) (Lond.)
 

Memberships:

SEC

Inquests

Bar Human Rights Committee

Bar Pro Bono Unit

Free Representation Unit

Interests: Travelling, cello, fencing.
 

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