
Mukhtiar is a highly regarded commercial/chancery practitioner with very wide experience. His practice encompasses specialist advisory work and representation in the following interrelated areas of law:
- Commercial/business
- Contract
- Corporate insolvency/bankruptcy
- Land/property
- Wills/probate
Land/Property
A wide range of cases involving ownership, trusts, and landlord and tenant disputes. Mukhtiar frequently advises on non-contentious matters.
Examples of work:
- Enforcing a foreign judgment that necessitated establishing beneficial interests in property in the UK.
- Noise nuisance and breach of contract claim between tenants of multi-million pound apartments in Knightsbridge.
- Claim by a former business tenant having given up his right to a new tenancy while acting on alleged misrepresentations by his former landlord regarding his intention to demolish and sell the site on which his property was situated.
- Representing former partners in a multi-party partnership dispute and successfully arguing fraud and misrepresentation, thereby securing declarations of trusts in clients' favour and also recovering their substantial legal costs.
- Acting for clients in adverse possession and boundary disputes.
- Non-contentious matters (e.g. advising on the enforceability of covenants in respect of land upon which it was intended to build a number of properties, advising on rights of way).