Profile description
Areas of Law:
- Education Law (including SEN, admissions, academic appeals, teachers' conduct and disciplinary)
- Employment (including dismissals, discrimination & grievances)
- Media Law, including film, tv and defamation
- Professional Regulatory for teachers and medical professionals
- Mixed civil law including costs, judicial review, contracts, and contentious family property matters
Education Law
Haresh has extensive experience in the education sector as he is a fully qualified modern foreign languages teacher and taught in Secondary schools in the East and West Midlands. He has also taught in various A-level institutions and university courses and done some exam marking. During his time as a teacher over 10 years coupled with being a lawyer, Haresh has dealt with many cases concerning parental orders, issues relating to MASH referrals, discrimination of students/pupils, admissions appeals, academic appeals and other matters. Haresh has also often advised teachers involving union matters from regarding employment law. Haresh has advised and represented on a variety of internal hearings involving sensitive matters when it comes to children and education. He is also able to advise on First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) matters. He is a keen advocate of ensuring childrens right to education is accessible.
Haresh also represents Teachers and education professionals who appear before panels in conduct hearings with the Teachers Regulation Agency.
Employment Law
Haresh’s experience is drawn from personal and professional experiences in which he has advised and represent clients in several types of employment law cases. Haresh has considerable experience right from the grievance/disciplinary stage up to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (including but not limited) to settlement negotiations.
Haresh has represented claimants and respondents in complex sex, race, gender, and religious discrimination claims (amongst other protected characteristics) which entail issues of whistleblowing, victimisation, and harassment for and against public bodies, companies, and health institutions. Haresh has often advised on workplace bullying to a multitude of clients and advised on various dismissals.
Haresh is a firm advocate of ensuring pleadings are drafted meticulously be it the ET1/ET3, acknowledgment of service, amendment applications, cost applications/responses, grounds for the notice of appeal or rule 3.10 applications. He also has wide experience in dealing with tampering allegations and using specialist expert evidence to manage these allegations in the Employment Tribunal. Haresh has also actively collaborated with employers in rectifying their equality policies to ensure they are compliant with the Equality Act 2010 and other laws.
Haresh has specific experience in the education sector having qualified as a languages teacher and law and therefore advised many teachers including but not limited to other professionals. He has specific experience in dealing with teachers unions and legal expenses insurers.
Haresh also advises on the effective use of data requests in employment cases. Haresh has extensive experience of representing clients at all types of hearings such as case management, preliminary, full merits, costs, remedies and others. Haresh widely promotes the idea of using a drop in, drop out conference service with him to save clients costs by assisting them on how to conduct their own case.
Entertainment & Film Law
Haresh has extensive experience in the media world, having worked as a journalist for the BBC and as a professional actor in London and performed/written comedy. He has advised individuals on performing contracts, censorship, defamation and freedom of expression and more.
An avid documentary filmmaker, Haresh takes instructions on film law from various filmmakers, particularly independent new filmmakers. He has experience in dealing with pre, editing and post production matters concerning consent, copyright and other issues. He has further spent the two years researching the legal issues concerning the adult industry and now offers advice to people working/offering services within this industry on a direct access basis. Haresh has dealt with many legal issues in his own projects including the internationally acclaimed 'My Nieces Big Fat Delhi Wedding'.
Media & Defamation law
Haresh has advised and represented clients up to the High Court in complex cases involving the Defamation Act 2013 concerning online/TV broadcasts. Haresh also takes instructions on matters where people believe they have been defamed in print form. From having worked as a journalist with the BBC in the past and being involved in the film and media industry, Haresh has a good understanding of how to defuse matters which could otherwise end up in costly litigation in this field.
Regulatory Law
Haresh has advised many medical doctors at distinct stages from Junior up to consultant level. He has advised on how to deal with allegations of misconduct, how to manage suspension, and how to deal with bullying and discrimination. Haresh has also represented at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal within with MPTS. Haresh does have some experience in representing other professionals also.
Civil Litigation
Haresh has advised and represented in various cases involving (including but not limited to) South Asian family disputes over property involving complex family / immigration and childcare issues. He has also managed solicitor and client costs disputes over breach retainer matters, contractual disputes between several parties and civil injunctions. He has consequently appeared in the family court and county court. Haresh has experience in advising on children matters involving education authorities.
Local legal work
Being from Hucknall and Arnold in Nottingham, Haresh has a keen interest in local legal issues and often works with clients and businesses all over the NG area and beyond through the East Midlands including Leicester, Derby, Lincoln and surrounding towns and villages. Haresh qualified to undertake direct access work during his training at Trent Chambers Nottingham and Derwent Chambers in Derby.
International Experience
Haresh has conducted placements abroad learning the law on different jurisdictions and international arbitration in Brazil and South Korea on Bar Council missions abroad. He also advises ex-pats in Andalucía (Spain, particularly Sevilla) who have ongoing legal matters in the U.K.
Awareness and Charity work:
Haresh is a keen advocate of giving something to others and collaborates with a committee including friends and family on various projects. He has often donated his hair to children for wigs who undergo treatment and volunteers at Millside Radio at Kings Mill Hospital.
Awards and achievements:
Haresh currently sits on the Policy and Editorial Board of Counsel Magazine. He is also a member of the Bar European Group, Employment Law Bar Association, and the Criminal Bar Association. In 2001, Haresh was awarded an accolade as Tomorrow’s Lawyer in the Times Newspaper National Student Awards, and in 2002 he was shortlisted in the GG2 diversity and leadership awards. In 2004, Haresh was invited to be part of Her Majesty’s Judging Panel for Unsung Heroes. In 2010, he was recognised in the Law Teacher of the Year Awards by Oxford University Press.
Interests:
Haresh is an avid runner and swimmer and enjoys writing. Haresh often writes many articles for Lexology and has contributed articles on discrimination and equality in magazines such as the Parliamentary Monitor, and his dissertation is archived in the library of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
