Representative Matters
Matters the firm has conducted
Described in anonymised form, without client names or identifying detail, in keeping with our obligations of confidentiality.
Criminal Law
Duration · 11 months
Quashing of a criminal complaint arising from a civil dispute
Legal issue
Whether a complaint alleging cheating was an abuse of process where the dispute was contractual and already sub judice in a civil suit.
Strategy
Compared the complaint with the plaint in the pending suit to demonstrate identity of allegations; relied on the settled distinction between breach of contract and criminal intent at inception.
Outcome
Proceedings quashed by the High Court; the civil suit proceeded to trial.
Property Law
Duration · 3 years
Partition of an ancestral holding among eight co-sharers
Legal issue
Determination of shares where mutation entries conflicted with the record of rights and one branch had raised construction.
Strategy
Reconstructed the devolution from the earliest available jamabandi; sought a local commission for measurement and equities on construction.
Outcome
Preliminary decree on shares; final decree by metes and bounds with adjustment for the constructed portion.
Commercial Litigation
Duration · 2 years 4 months
Recovery of running-bill dues from a State department
Legal issue
Withholding of payment against alleged delay where the contract provided for extension of time.
Strategy
Established the extensions on the department’s own correspondence; sought attachment before judgment of a pending bill.
Outcome
Decree for the principal sum with interest; recovered in execution.
Family Law
Duration · 18 months
Custody and maintenance following a contested separation
Legal issue
Interim custody of two minor children and quantum of maintenance where income was largely undocumented.
Strategy
Placed schooling and residence continuity at the centre of the custody argument; proved income by lifestyle and bank records.
Outcome
Interim custody with structured visitation; maintenance fixed and later enhanced on enforcement.
Consumer Matters
Duration · 14 months
Repudiated health insurance claim on a pre-existing condition
Legal issue
Whether non-disclosure was material where the treated condition was unrelated to the ailment claimed for.
Strategy
Relied on the treating physician’s record and the surveyor’s own note to sever the two conditions.
Outcome
Complaint allowed with costs; award satisfied without appeal.
Matters are described without client names, court numbers or identifying particulars. Past outcomes depend entirely on their own facts and are not an indication of the result in any other matter.