Sheriar Khan

Since becoming a tenant, Sheriar has been regularly instructed both unled and as part of a team in relation to cases in the High Court and County Court.

• Drafting Defence and Counterclaim in the Technology & Construction Court in respect of a dispute involving the design and construction of a new football pitch (total claim value approximately £1.2 million)
• Drafting Particulars of Claim in the Technology & Construction Court, alleging professional negligence against a project manager and supervisor (claim value approximately £2million).
• Drafting Particulars of Claim in the Technology & Construction Court in respect of a final account dispute (claim value approximately £1million).
• Drafting Particulars of Claim in the Technology & Construction Court in respect of a claim by homeowners in connection with the defective construction of a property (claim value approximately £1million).
• Drafting various advices on issues arising out of the Building Safety Act 2022 and in particular in relation to the new Higher-Risk Building regime.
• Instructed as sole counsel to draft a Defence in the County Court in respect of a claim by a contractor for sums deducted during the contract works under a Pay Less Notice.
• Instructed as sole counsel to draft a Defence and Counterclaim in the County Court in respect of a claim for incomplete and defective work.
• Instructed as sole counsel to advise on the prospects of a permission to appeal hearing.
• Instructed as sole counsel in a successful application to set aside default judgment in the County Court.
• Appeared in a Technology & Construction Court hearing on a noting brief.
• Drafting Particulars of Claim on behalf of an employer in a fire safety defect claim arising out of defectively designed and constructed cladding works by a sub-contractor (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on limitation in a claim by a main contractor against its sub-contractor for allegedly defective refurbishment works (during pupillage).
• Drafting Particulars of Claim alleging negligent design of a pipeline system by hydraulic engineers (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice for an employer on compensation event issues in an amended NEC contract (during pupillage).
• Drafting Defence in a cladding claim against an architect arising out of fire safety defects (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on fire safety issues and limitation in a prospective claim against a developer (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on the contractual interpretation of clauses under an amended JCT Standard Build Contract (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on time at large issues under a JCT Standard Build Contract (during pupillage).
• Assisting in drafting an advice with regard to principles of legal causation in a claim concerning the defective design of a warehouse (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice in relation to a call on a performance bond under a shipbuilding contract (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice on the contractual interpretation of insurance clauses under an amended JCT Intermediate Building Contract (during pupillage).
• Assisting in drafting an advice on causes of action under the Building Safety Act 2022 (during pupillage).
• Drafting advice relating to the interpretation of exclusion clauses in a construction contract (during pupillage).

Sheriar’s energy and natural resources experience during pupillage includes:

• Drafting advice on termination issues under a bespoke framework services agreement for the supply, installation and commission of an emission controls plant.
• Drafting a Statement of Defence in an English law governed LCIA arbitration in relation to a dispute arising out of the sale of petroleum products.

• Successfully acting as sole counsel to defend a smash and grab adjudication referred by a sub-contractor under an NEC Contract valued at circa £330,000.
• Junior counsel (led by Stephanie Barwise KC) on an adjudication concerning declarations sought which arise out of a bespoke construction contract.
• Instructed as sole counsel to act for a main contractor in an adjudication under an NEC contract regarding the provision of electronic communications services worth over £1.1 miillion.
• Acting for the employer on two simultaneous adjudications in respect of two separate projects.
• Instructed to advise on prospects of success for a responding party in an adjudication.
• Drafting advice on the merits of challenges to enforcement of an adjudication decision (during pupillage).
• Drafting a Request for Arbitration in an ICC Arbitration in respect of a claim for breach of contract arising out of the termination of a framework agreement (during pupillage).
• Drafting a Defence to a Statement of Case on behalf of a firm of architects in relation to a claim for alleged breaches of contract in respect of design and inspection matters (during pupillage).

Sheriar gained experience in a range of commercial disputes during pupillage, including:

• Drafting a skeleton argument for a preliminary issue hearing on the interpretation of a limitation of liability clause in a Master Services Agreement.
• Drafting advice on limitation in respect of an insurance
• Drafting skeleton arguments for various interim applications, including for pre-action disclosure, permission to amend a statement of case, security for costs and summary judgement and/or strike out.

2018 – 2019:                  BPTC, City Law School

2018:                          Sir Dingle Foot Scholarship awarded by Gray’s Inn

2018:                          City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence

2017 – 2018:                  LLM Master of Law, University of Cambridge

2014 – 2017:                  LLB Bachelor of Law (1^st Class Honours), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Sheriar speaks conversational French.