Harpreet Giani
Membership Status: Barrister - Full Member
General Information
Harpreet is a dual-qualified barrister. He was called to the bar in India in 1999 and in England & Wales in 2006.
Harpreet regularly appears in courts across the country and is frequently instructed in particularly complex cases requiring creative and out-of-the-box consideration. In addition to contentious cases, he also regularly advises on transactional and commercial issues.
Areas of law
- Chancery
- Business and Commercial Law
- Commercial Arbitration
- International Law – Conflict of Laws
- International Arbitration
- Family Law (Financial/Ancillary Relief)
- IT, Technology and Cyber Law
- Defamation
- Financial wrongdoing
- POCA, confiscation and asset restraints
Indian Law
As a qualified Indian advocate, Harpreet provides seamless expert advice on Indian law and representation in Indian courts. He 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
Education
- 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)
Languages
- Hindi
- Punjabi
- Urdu (oral)
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Publications
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/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