Direct Access Barrister

Muhammad Umer Imtiaz

Muhammad is self-empoyed barrister, with the right to conduct litigation and to accept public access work.

Muhammad has extensive experience in Chancery, Commercial and Corporate Law.

Muhammad is recognised by his clients as a reliable advocate who is willing to fight for his clients with a highly commercial approach to problem-solving. His strength lies in his attention to detail and the thoroughness with which he approaches cases, and being able to look at the bigger picture at the same time, to achieve satisfactory outcomes. Muhammad is commercially savvy and sensible, and often able to get straight to the heart of the case and makes the right decisions at the right time for his clients.

Muhammad is Public Access accredited and authorised to conduct litigation.

Area of Law

Chancery

• The scope of trustees’ powers and duties
• Construction and rectification of trust documents
• Probate disputes, including issues of construction and rectification of wills and testamentary capacity
• Administration of estates, including cross-border issues
• Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
• International trust and estate disputes, including conflicts of law issues

Commercial

• Commercial contract disputes
• Commercial fraud
• Injunctions
• Partnership disputes
• Breach of fiduciary and directors’ duties
• Shareholder disputes
• 994 Petitions (under Companies Act 2006)
• Breach of warranty disputes
• Negligence Claims
• Jurisdiction and conflict of law issues
• Restoration of companies to the register
• Asset Tracing and recovery
• Worldwide Freezing injunctions
• Corporate insolvency – winding up, administration, CVA, receivership

Defamation

• Malicious falsehood
• Breach of confidence / privacy
• Data protection (including data breach and group litigation)
• Harassment

Insolvency and Restructuring

• Challenging statutory demands
• Injunction to restrain the advertisement of winding up petition
• Winding up and Bankruptcy petition
• Validation orders
• Annulments
• Insolvency administration order
• Suspension from discharge and bankruptcy restrictions orders

Landlord and Tenant

• Landlord and Tenant (Commercial and Residential dispute)
• Possession proceedings

Property

• Adverse possession
• Boundary Disputes
• Construction disputes
• Landlord and Tenant (Commercial and Residential dispute)
• Possession proceedings
• Professional negligence (including architects, designers, engineers, M&E and project managers)

• Payment and final account claims
• Advice and disputes under the all common-form contract suites (e.g., JCT, NEC IMechE, RIBA, FIDIC)

What sort of work do I do?

Muhammad specialises in civil and commercial litigation.

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