Qaiser Khanzada

Profile

Educated at Karachi Grammar School, Oundle and Keele University (1980 B.Soc Sc) Qaiser completed his education at the College of Law in 1981.

He is a founding partner of Barker Gillette, having joined the predecessor practice in 1981.

Born in 1957, Qaiser lives with his wife and family in London. Away from the office Qaiser's interests are running, skiing, golf and family.

Expertise

Commercial litigation

• Multiparty actions
• Claimant professional negligence
• Partnership and boardroom disputes
• Contractual disputes
• Directors disqualification applications
• Contested probate
• Contested property, landlord and tenant and insolvency.

Further, Qaiser is extensively experienced in all formats of alternative dispute resolution processes ranging from direct negotiations through to mediation.

He is also the Vice Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Significant Cases

• Kalamazoo Plc -v- Rice (Court of Appeal)
• Raiss -v- Palmano
• Goode -v- Martin (Court of Appeal) (2001) (adding cause of action outside limitation period; CPR 17.2; Article 6 ECHR)
• Asiansky Television Plc -v- Bayer Rosen (Court of Appeal)
• Snowville UK Limited -v- Holidaybreak Plc (Queens Bench Division appeal to Judge)
• Kruger Trading Limited -v- Global Network Holdings Limited (2004) EWHC 1396(CH)(T.Mowschenson QC) (construction of demise clause in commercial lease; declarations as to proper construction; rectification on grounds of mutual or unilateral mistake; forfeiture of lease)
• Khodari v Al Tamimi (Court of Appeal) (2009)
• Jain v Trent Strategic Health Authority  (House of Lords) (2009)
• Choudhary and others v Barnagore Jute (Court of Appeal) (2009)
• Paddington Basin Developments Ltd v West End Quay Estate Management (Lewison J.) [2010] EWHC, [2010] NPC 46 (Qaiser successfully represented a management company in the Paddington Basic Development in an important action to determine whether an Estate Management Deed was Qualifying Long Term Agreement under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and therefore subject to the statutory consultation provisions.  In one of the very few High Court cases ever to consider the relevant statutory provisions, the Court held that the Deed was a Qualifying Agreement. The case is notable for its discussion of the policy behind the statute and an analysis of types of agreement that will and will not fall within the definition of Qualifying Long Term Agreement)
• Vision Golf Ltd v Weightmans (a firm) [2005] 1675 EWHC (CH) (Lewison J.) (Acting for successful Claimant in a professional negligence action in a case concerning solicitor’s failure to apply promptly for relief from forfeiture by peaceable re-entry; whether breach caused any loss; whether an application for relief made after 6 months by a second firm of solicitors under the equitable jurisdiction would have succeeded; whether parallel lease also forfeited and whether it was lost as a result of the solicitor’s negligence)