Civil Wrong
Civil wrong encompasses all wrongful acts or infringements of a right leading to legal liability. These include personal injury, professional negligence, civil fraud and breach of trust.
Personal Injury
We are a leading personal injury firm. Our lawyers are recognised for their specialist knowledge, approachability and sympathetic understanding of lay clients, as well as our forensic skills. Our work includes the highest value catastrophic cases and more modest claims where lives have been altered, limited or disrupted. Our clients include private individuals, private and public companies and insurers, both domestic and foreign.
We cover all aspects of the law relating to personal injury, both physical and psychiatric. We provide clear, down to earth advice and adept representation on public, employer’s and road traffic liabilities. Members of Fahri, Azzat & Co. have led the development of the law relating to personal injury particularly on sexual harassment in the workplace.
Professional negligence
Fahri, Azzat & Co. offers an amalgamation of practical advice and unparalleled advocacy experience across all levels of seniority: our clients can be confident that whatever the year of call, they are instructing lawyers with the court-craft that comes only from regular appearances in front of judges in every civil court, as well as regulatory tribunals.
We offer counsel with in-depth knowledge across professional sectors, from financial and legal services to construction and design. We adopt a commercial approach to litigation, from pre-action to trial and beyond, and are focussed on ensuring that every decision taken brings the case closer to the client’s desired outcome, in the most cost-effective way possible.
Years of experience have shown that the best outcome in litigation comes when advocate & solicitor and client operate as a team, and this is central to our ethos. We aim to ensure that when a client instructs professional negligence counsel from Fahri, Azzat & Co., they gain a team member who will work tirelessly with the rest of the team to achieve the client’s goals.
Civil fraud, asset recovery & injunctive relief
Fahri, Azzat & Co. members are experts in dealing with civil fraud, particularly with its associated strengths in commercial litigation and a broad sphere of regulatory experience, particularly in the financial services sector. Areas covered include corporate and international fraud, asset recovery, asset tracing, breach of fiduciary duty, bribery, misuse of confidential information and intellectual property, and civil contempt.
Members of the Firm have experience in utilising the coercive powers of the High Court for the securing of evidence and the preservation, tracing and recovery of assets. This includes drafting and obtaining bespoke search orders, freezing orders and disclosure orders, travel restraint orders, cross-examination orders and civil arrest warrants.
Civil fraud proceedings typically involve extensive interlocutory applications for injunctive relief including where appropriate the obtaining of world-wide freezing orders and ancillary relief. Fahri, Azzat & Co.’s members have experience in utilising the coercive powers of the courts and are familiar with the suite of tools used by sophisticated litigation teams to safeguard their clients’ interests in making or defending such claims.
Our work includes cases relating to:
Fraudulent misrepresentation
Conspiracy
Misappropriation of assets
Investment in bogus schemes
Breach of fiduciary duty