Overview
Farhan has a busy, multi-disciplinary practice with extensive experience in cases ranging from the lower courts to the Court of Appeal.
Farhan has a substantial and wide-ranging property practice that encompasses all aspects of real property litigation and advice. He also has significant expertise in wills, probate, trusts, inheritance matters, charities and costs disputes.
Farhan’s diverse public law and human rights practice covers police, prisons, the Equality Act, immigration, EU Law, and the ECHR. He is regularly instructed to draft pleadings for judicial review claims and injunctions.
Farhan is also qualified under the Bar Standards Board Direct Access Scheme and is authorised to conduct litigation directly for members of the public.
Featured cases
- Ullah v Ullah 2023 EWHC 3313 KB – Farhan acted for the successful appellant in an appeal in a large multi-million-pound claim involving complex claims for breach of trust, dishonest assistance, and self-dealing. Farhan was able to set aside an order striking out the claim and refusing permission to amend the particulars of claim, with the claim being restored, permission to amend granted and the matter remitted back for trial.
- FSV Freeholders v SG1 Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 1381 – Farhan acted for the Appellant in an appeal to the Court of Appeal on a very important matter of construction of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, where there was no previous authority on the point.
- FSV Freeholders v SGL1 Ltd [2022] EWHC 3336 (Ch) – Successful appeal in the High Court concerning the right to buy in respect of a large block of flats in a failed property development scheme where the claim had initially been struck out. The appeal was allowed in part and the matter remitted back for trial.
- Munir v Revenue and Customs [2021] EWCA Civ 799 – Farhan appeared before the Court of Appeal in a second appeal concerning novel points of law about the application of the Civil Evidence Act, where the Appellant sought to argue before a Tribunal that a criminal conviction for being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of tax did not automatically give rise to liability for excise duty following an assessment by HMRC. The Court of Appeal gave important guidance which may be of significance to numerous appeals before the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber). The case has also been discussed in various blog posts due to its significance.
- R (X and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 1480 – A case of significance important in which the Court of Appeal held that the Home Office has an implied power to delay decision making pending a criminal investigation by a different government body, whilst noting that the exercise of the power to delay must be exercised rationally.
- Paling v Ipswich Magistrates Court & Anor [2021] EWHC 2739 (Admin) – Farhan was successful in setting aside a liability order made by Ipswich Magistrates Court, on the basis of unfairness, apparent bias and a failure to make reasonable adjustments. The application for judicial review was allowed and the matter remitted back to the Magistrates Court to be heard by a differently constituted bench of judges.
- R (on the application of RH) v Secretary of State for Justice CO/1757/2020 – Farhan was instructed by a prisoner challenging the lawfulness of his ongoing detention, due to his various underlying health conditions, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The client was released early from prison on special licence after instituting judicial review proceedings.
- SK V HM – GPT-2020-000663 – Farhan was instructed in respect of an estate worth over £10 million, with a challenge to the validity of 4 wills due to concerns of undue influence, fraudulent calumny and lack of knowledge and approval.
- Din v Aslam – PT-2019-0008843 – Farhan was Instructed in respect of a claim for delivery up of estate assets from a personal representative, where a freezing order was also granted due to a risk of dissipation with the Defendant being in a foreign jurisdiction.
- SS v HP QB-2020-002502 – Instructed in respect of a professional negligence claim against an immigration advisor.
- RFM, N M, I B M (A MINOR) V SSHD HU/12528/2019 – successful appeal to the Upper Tribunal concerning the application of MK V SSHD [2017] EWHC 1365 (Admin), where the court found a child born to Indian national parents, who had not been registered with the Indian High Commission, was stateless and therefore entitled to leave to remain with reference to paragraph 276ADE of the Immigration Rules.
Education
- BA (Hons) Economics and Law – University of Leicester
- BPTC- City Law School
- Called to the Bar at Lincoln Inn
Memberships
- The Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association
- The Property Bar Association
- Human Rights Lawyers Association
- The Direct Access Bar Association
Awards
- Law works and attorney general pro bono awards- runner up
- University of Leicester entrance scholarship
- The Jon Holyoak award
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