Harpreet Giani

Civil Litigation, Property, Media, Defamation, Business and commercial law (including cross-border inter-jurisdictional disputes and financial services), Property and land (including landlord and tenant), Trusts, wills and probate, Defamation, media, information and data protection law, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Information Technology

Harpreet is able to offer support in the following areas of commercial law:

•  Chancery
•  Business law
•  Commercial arbitration
•  International law – conflict of laws
•  International arbitration
•  IT, technology and cyber Law
•  Defamation
•  Financial wrongdoing
•  POCA, confiscation and asset restraints

Civil Litigation, Property, Media & Defamation

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. He is a highly experienced civil 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 and financial services)
    
  •  Property and land (including landlord and tenant)
    
  •  Trusts, wills and probate
    
  •  Defamation, media, information and data protection law
  •  Bankruptcy and Insolvency
    
  •  Information Technology 

Previous 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/Gurudwara
•  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 the 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.

•  Called to the Bar in 2006
•  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)