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Head office – Fenchurch Street
Sackville House
143-149 Fenchurch Street
EC3M 6BN
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Ms Manjinder Kaur Atwal
Work Department
Housing
Position
Housing director Manjinder Kaur Atwal has over 13 years’ experience in housing and property litigation law. She handles a wide variety of housing and property law dispute cases including possession claims and eviction matters, landlord and tenant disputes, homelessness, housing disrepair, bringing judicial review matters, reviews and appeals relating to local authority housing decisions, bringing and defending injunctions, boundary disputes, property nuisance/negligence claims, consumer and contractual matters, debt recovery, and enforcement. She also has considerable experience dealing with small claims cases and multi-track cases, and undertakes her own advocacy at court and tribunals on behalf of her clients.
Manjinder is dedicated to achieving the best possible outcome for her clients and has earned a reputation for taking on difficult cases deemed without merit, going on to obtain excellent results for clients.
Her most notable recent undertaking is her work assisting victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. As well as assisting victims with their immediate housing needs, she is heavily involved in negotiations and raising awareness for those who have been impacted. Manjinder and her team were amongst the first lawyers to assist the victims and was part of a team that set up two drop-in pro bono clinics at Al Manaar Mosque and Westway Sports Centre. She has appeared in the media on multiple occasions, discussing the needs of Grenfell victims and how the cuts to legal aid for housing disrepair have impacted vulnerable tenants.
Manjinder regularly features in the media, speaking to TalkRadio Live and RT UK News discussing her work. She recently discussed the government’s low levels of spending on social housing and the impact on landlords and tenants during the Covid-19 outbreak. She has also written numerous articles for media platforms on the current social housing issues.
Career
Manjinder was admitted as a solicitor in 2001 and joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in 2012. She was promoted to partner-level director in 2017.
Memberships
Manjinder is an ADR Group Accredited Mediator.
Education
Manjinder studied Information Technology with Multimedia at Middlesex University in 2004 before completing her Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at Brunel University. In 2006, she successfully completed her LPC at the College of Law.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Real estate > Social housing
(Leading individuals)Acting for both tenants and landlords in a range of social housing claims, cases of disrepair, and unlawful evictions, the Duncan Lewis Solicitors housing practice demonstrates ‘excellent knowledge of the law’. With extensive experience of representing clients in the Court of Appeal and High Court, property litigation department head Manjinder Kaur Atwal brings extensive expertise in complex judicial review matters and possession disputes to her role. Dianne Cowie handles injunction and committal proceedings, while Bernadette Chikwe specialises in all aspects of housing litigation. Daljit Singh deals with applications for eviction, and Vincent Davis focuses on homelessness reviews and appeals. Zuhal Saglam Bas is another key team member. All named practitioners are based in Harrow.
London > Real estate > Social housing: tenant
(Next Generation Partners)Duncan Lewis Solicitors offers representation across the full range of social housing matters, and the team is co-led by Bernadette Chikwe, who specialises in housing litigation and landlord and tenant housing matters, alongside Manjinder Kaur Atwal and Dianne Cowie. The social housing team handles cases related to possession and homelessness, disrepair, succession, unlawful evictions, and neighbourhood disputes. Associate Zuhal Saglam Bas is taking a lead role on neighbourhood disputes and litigation cases. The practice has developed an expertise in handling Equality Act defence cases, and a public law specialism representing both landlords and tenants in disputes, appeals, and judicial reviews. Chikwe regularly appears at the Central London County Court, along with Cowie, who also has experience at the High Court and the Supreme Court. Daljit Singh also handles a range of both contentious and non-contentious matters, from homelessness appeals in the County Court to claims for judicial review. The team has experience working with vulnerable clients, such as those with mental health conditions, terminal illnesses, or learning difficulties, and receives referrals from community organisations, domestic violence units, prisons, and detention centres.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Real estate > Social housing: tenant
- Social housing: tenant London > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Real estate > Social housing: tenant
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- Private client > Court of protection
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Professional negligence