Admitted as a solicitor 2006
Serhat’s experience encompasses a wide area of civil and commercial litigation practice
This includes the following:
- Property litigation, both residential and commercial, encompassing leases and boundary and rights of way disputes.
- Contentious wills and probate matters, like disputing a will or seeking financial provision from an estate, the latter being known as a 1975 Act claim.
- Commercial disputes arising from shareholder and director activities.
- Contractual disputes
- TOLATA matters
Serhat qualified as a solicitor in 2006 and has been practising litigation ever since. His experience encompasses but is not limited to the following cases:
- Contentious probate matters – very favourable judgment; estate property fully recovered from defendant, who had claimed a beneficial share, with no right of appeal;
- 1975 Act matters both claimant and defendant. In one matter advised upon the claimant was successful by acquiring a generous settlement, without a final hearing, where the claimant secured a lump sum which enabled her to move on;
- Company and shareholder disputes – securing an ex-parte emergency worldwide freezing order against a party and, on another matter, seeking a declaration that some company shares were held on constructive trust;
- Property litigation, including a trusts of land claim – successful settlement establishing an equitable redistribution of a substantial £1m plus property portfolio. Taking legal action against a bank and their receivers for repossessing, and then selling at an undervalue, the client’s investment property.
- Successful settlement against a Trustee in Bankruptcy’s claim that his client purchased a property at an undervalue and successful defence against a satellite litigation matter from the same party alleging that a settlement had taken place;
- Trust litigation – successful settlement, at court, securing claimant’s personal injury fund of half a million pounds and costs;
- Trespass, boundary, right of way and access disputes – successful judgment establishing respective rights of way and parking rights as well as, at the outset, securing an emergency injunction to prevent further violence and trespass;
- Negligence – successfully averted potential action against an electrician;
- Intellectual property litigation – successful defence against an unmerited claim of infringement of IP rights, concerning an acoustic device;
