Neville Takiar

About Neville

• Advising on a dispute concerning environmental issues for an international sportswear retailer.
• Representing the chairman of a high-profile sporting institution.
• Advising a property developer in a dispute over a failed joint venture, including defeating a claim for possession of a property pursuant to a legal charge (with arguments over ostensible authority, director’s duties and subrogation/unjust enrichment) whilst resolving the underlying shareholder dispute through a concurrent unfair prejudice petition in the High Court under Section 994 of the Companies Act 2006.
• Advising the owner of a manor house in a dispute with a biomass plant installer.  
• Representing a number of the country’s largest privately owned property development companies in disputes with commercial tenants over rent arrears (including forfeiture by peaceable re-entry) and various other covenant breaches.
• Pursuing a complex claim for defamation, misuse of private information and breach of privacy against a national television broadcaster and a public service institution on behalf of a professional.
• Representing three individuals on behalf of an international corporation in a dispute with a commercial rival alleging breaches of confidentiality and restrictive covenants in employment contracts, following emergency injunction proceedings in the High Court.
• Representing a technology entrepreneur in a breach of warranty claim following his exit from a company, including litigating a novel point on the interpretation of CPR Rule 12.2 (default judgment) following defects in a request for default judgment and CPR Rule 6.7 (service technicalities) in the context of alleged defective service.
• Representing two individuals in an extraordinary fee dispute with the unincorporated law firm of an eventual bankrupt, including successfully setting aside a default judgment which had stood for three years, striking-out the underlying claim and pursuing costs recovery through multiple applications in bankruptcy proceedings.  
• Applying for and obtaining numerous mandatory, prohibitory and freezing injunctions, including injunctions restraining presentation and advertisement of winding-up petitions in the Companies Court (now part of the Insolvency and Companies List).
• Representing a number of retired sports professionals in disputes with insurers under policies of accident and sickness cover following career ending injuries.
• Representing a government department in the recovery of substantial pension overpayments.

Years of experience

15

About their firm

gunnercooke believes the potential of its clients and its people rests with its ability to free the law and make it work as it should. It's team comprises passionate lawyers that advise with authority: every gunnercooke lawyer has a minimum 10,000 hours practising experience. Providing a suite of corporate and commercial legal services, gunnercooke is one of the UK’s fastest-growing challenger brands.

Areas of expertise

• Insolvency & Debt administration
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Financial Services
• Property