Adil Navaid > Chambers of Frances Heaton KC and Richard Norton > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile

Adil Navaid

Work Department

Banking, Finance and Insolvency, Company and Commercial, Data and Information Law, Property and Private Client, Public and Administrative

Position

Adil is a specialist commercial barrister.

He has a broad commercial practice incorporating various specialisms including contractual disputes, property and land disputes, landlord and tenant claims and consumer rights. He consistently is instructed to advise on such matters as well as draft pleadings on the same. Adil also has a growing practice in public law and judicial review.

Adil has been instructed by both banks and consumers for consumer credit and mis-selling cases. Adil has regularly appeared both at trial and at dispute resolution hearings on PPI mis-selling claims and has been praised particularly on his arguments relating to compromise and settlement. Adil has advised and defended on claims relating to guarantees and security and is thorough in his research on the same.

Adil regularly advises on, drafts pleadings for and appears at trials on various contractual disputes such as on the supply of goods and services, agency, construction and misrepresentation, and is thorough in his exploration of potential causes of actions to ensure his client has the best chances of success. Adil is also regularly instructed on data protection and privacy cases and is pragmatic in his approach to such a developing area of law.

Adil has a growing practice in shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, directions’ disqualifications and defamation.

Adil is regularly instructed on data protection and privacy cases and is well-versed in GDPR and DPA compliance. Adil provides advice to litigants who may have a claim in such areas with a realistic view of the damages they are likely to recover.

Adil has a broad practice in and regularly advises on landlord and tenant cases and provides clarity to clients in an often-complex area of law. Adil has advised on business tenancies, residential tenancies, disrepair claims, service charge disputes, boundary disputes, housing claims, covenants, property trusts and proprietary estoppel, construction cases, possession claims, adverse possession, wills and probate and Inheritance Act claims.

Adil has dealt with numerous possessions claims on both mandatory and discretionary grounds. He is alive to issues that may affect even mandatory claims, such as bankruptcy and breathing space policies, and has successfully manoeuvred around last-minute attempts to avoid possession claims by opponents in the past.

 

Career

Adil was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 2021, and joined chambers as a tenant in November 2022 following the successful completion of his pupillage under the supervision of Daniel Metcalfe.

Memberships

• Lincoln’s Inn
• Northern Circuit

Education

• LLM, BPP University (2021)
• BTC, BPP University (2021)
• LLB, First Class Hons, University of Liverpool (2020)