Jasdeep Rai
Consultant Solicitor – Commercial Disputes, Commercial Litigation & Property Disputes
About Jasdeep
Jasdeep is an experienced solicitor, having acted for an impressive portfolio of clients in an array of complicated and high-value commercial disputes and property disputes. His experience has seen him operate in the High Court and county courts.
Clients have consistently indicated they like Jasdeep’s coherent communication, his honesty, his efficiency, and his tenacity in pursuing their objectives. Despite his experience at large commercial firms and in complex litigation, he is down-to-earth and affable.
During his career, Jasdeep worked at a highly ranked Legal 500 firm in Cambridgeshire, where he was promoted to Associate. He went on to join a tier 1-ranked Legal 500 firm with a base in central London, assisting on high-value disputes. He continued to develop his commercial disputes practice at the Cambridge office of a highly ranked Legal 500 top 135 UK law firm.
Jasdeep has also previously worked as an in-house lawyer for HM Land Registry, which complements his property practice. His HM Land Registry experience makes him one of the few lawyers in the country working in private practice with such a background. This is advantageous to his clients embroiled in land disputes.
Legal Specialisms
- Commercial Disputes
- Contract Disputes
- Warranty Disputes
- Civil Fraud
- Professional Negligence
- Intellectual Property
- Debt Recovery
- Defamation
- Property Disputes - Adverse Possession, Rights of Way, Boundaries, Trespass, Nuisance
- Jasdeep is Frequently Involved in some of the Following Industries: Manufacturing, Engineering, Technology, Medical, Recruitment, Energy, Private Wealth, IT, Property & Construction
Legal Expertise in Practice
Examples of Jasdeep’s Commercial Disputes work include:
- Advised on enforcing a US$70 million DIFC Court judgment against English assets.
- Assisting in pursuing LCIA arbitration proceedings relating to an unfair prejudice petition, with the value of the shares in dispute averred to be c.£60 million.
- Helped defend a law firm in an administration order application regarding a c.£15 million loan recall.
- Assisting the claimant in pursuing a professional negligence claim against his direct access junior barrister and his direct access senior barrister (King’s Counsel) for the failure to competently advise in defamation proceedings in the High Court, resulting in the client’s liability going from a modest c.£5,000 payment, apology, and undertaking, to a staggering c.£400,000
- Represented a doctor claiming breach of the partnership deed after removal from the partnership.
- Assisting a sophisticated group of clients in appealing an Arbitrator’s Award in the High Court.
- Acting for the subsidiary company of a large group company in pursuing, inter alia, conspiracy claims against numerous individuals and companies for c.£350,000. Successfully settled.
- Pursuing a professional negligence claim on behalf of multiple claimants against a national UK law firm for failing to revoke the Deceased’s (before he died) will for him to die intestate, for c.£300,000. That failure resulted in the beneficiary in the last will (upon the Deceased’s death) being entitled to the entirety of the Deceased’s estate, leaving the multiple intended beneficiaries with nothing. Successfully settled out of court.
- Acting for an individual in pursuing unpaid loans against the debtor and the guarantor in a family dispute. Involved complicated issues, including the service of an original claim form in prison (where the prison would not permit external original documentation due to contraband policy), numerous witnesses, some undocumented loans dating back to 2006, admissibility of audio recordings, etc. Matter proceeded to a successful 5-day trial with the claimant obtaining judgment for c.£200,000
- Acting for a claimant in the enforcement of a Guarantee (subject to UK jurisdiction) against entities located in Gibraltar and Cape Verde relating to a delay in the completion of a hotel resort in Cape Verde. Value was c.£200,000
- Acting for a well-known influencer in a defence and counterclaim against the agency, the influencer had entered into a contract. Successfully settled.
Examples of his Property Disputes work include:
- Acting for a landowner in a dispute with his neighbour over the position of the legal boundary.
- Acting for a landowner in successfully registering an area of unregistered land via adverse possession.
- Acting for a management company in aggressively pursuing two homeowners refusing to pay service charges, having erred in their understanding of the Transfer deed. Service charges and legal fees successfully recovered.
- Acting for a landowner of commercial premises in pursuing a claim based on the position of the legal boundary, with the alternative arguments being adverse possession or a prescriptive easement. A complicated matter involving the consideration of voluminous land deeds and ordnance survey plans tracing back to a common vendor.
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Call Jasdeep: 01202 156265
Email Jasdeep: j.rai@woodstocklegalservices.co.uk