Profile description
Key areas of law include:
- Divorce and Financial Settlement
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Property including Landlord and Tenant law and housing disrepair
- Commercial law (including breach of contract and debt recovery)
- Chancery including trusts, particular experience in trusts arising from transfer of substantial assets within a family
- Costs and costs-recovery
- Personal Injury including RTA & PL, Claimant & Defendant
Divorce and Financial Settlement
Taj accepts instructions to deal with all facets of divorce and financial settlement proceedings, including applications for Financial Orders, MPS (Maintenancy Pending Suit) and applications to enforce.
- [private]: case dealing with bigamy and foreign assets. Settled post-FDR
- [private]: case dealing with interevention by H's parents' claim against FMH
- [private]: case dealing with H having no relationship with children of the family and consequent departure from equality
- [private]: case dealing with apparent insolvent parties
Commerical/Chancery
- Bishop v Bishop: Successful claim re presumed resulting trusts - recovering substantial gifts to family, approx. value 190k (Chancery/Equity)
- [private]: Successful defence of a 200k plus construction dispute (Construction/JCT contract)
- [ongoing]: defending a TOLATA claim against 8 london residential properies (TOLATA)
Housing Disrepair
- Acting for claimaints and defendants (mainly private landlords) re deposit claims, damp and other aspects of disrepair.
Personal Injury
- [private]: successfully defending an EL claim brought by a tandoori chef burnt by the explosion of a tandoori oven (claim settled by a different defendant on appeal)
- [private]: successfully claimed on behalf of a pedestrian in an RTA left with a permanent limp
- [private]: successfully claimed (settled after adjournment of the 1st date for trial) on behalf of a tenant against a local authority landlord, after falling from the 1st floor to the ground floor, through the ground floor ceiling (floor boards removed), when the local authority's agent-builder was carrying out maintenance on the site
- [private]: claim on behalf of a passenger in an RTA against the MIB, left with permanent facial and other injuries following a head on collision at high speed
Appeals (various areas of law)
- Khaira v Service Underwriting, successfully appealed a strike out for Claimant's non-attendance a trial
- Ogboogu v AIG, successfully appealed a disapplication of QOCS
- [private], appeal on the meaning of a part 36 offer, obtained permission to appeal and then parties settled
- [private], successfully defended an appeal on statutory time limits outside the Limitation Act (grant of new residential long lease)
- [private], defended an appeal on the application of CPR 22PD3A (statements of truths and non-english speakers) for D1, an alternative defendant, D2, settled the claim pre-appeal hearing
Personal Style:
Having qualified as a commercial solicitor in a city firm and founded a tech startup, he is particularly apt at giving commercially practical advice. He relishes working on cases from the outset and developing a relationship and strategy with instructing solicitors and lay clients.
About Taj Uddin:
2005, Mansfield College, University of Oxford. 2009, qualified as a solicitor at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (London). 2010, qualified as a Barrister. 2013, public access accredited. Past member of Guildhall Chambers, Portsmouth. Previously a co-founder of a tech startup dealing with relationships between landlords and tenants.
Personal:
Taj has made it to the top of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, Mount Snowdon, Mount Kilimanjaro and Cathedral Peak! Previously worked with and current supporter of A4ID in Tanzania www.a4id.org.
