Hardwicke Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
Eastham Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
Pegasus Bursary (Gray’s Inn)

Languages

Fluent: French, Punjabi (spoken/written)
Advanced: Spanish, German, Hindi, Urdu, Italian

Family, Public/Human Rights, Employment, Property, Personal Injury, Crime

Inderjeet joined chambers as a tenant in May 2010.

He successfully completed pupillage at 1 Hare Court and at the cabinet of Delphine Abecassis in Paris. During pupillage, Inderjeet gained extensive experience of ‘big money’ matrimonial finance cases, private child law and private international family law, and became familiar with both the civil and penal French legal systems. He then practised for a year in general civil and criminal law from the chambers of Stephen Hockman QC.

From October to December 2008, Inderjeet was appointed as Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Thorpe at the Court of Appeal. He was invited back in January 2010 as Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Jackson and the Review of Civil Litigation Costs.

Inderjeet practices and advises in all areas of chambers’ expertise, with a particular emphasis on domestic and international family law:

• Finance/Property All aspects of ancillary relief, Schedule 1 Children Act applications, TOLATA applications, cohabitee disputes, and related enforcement proceedings
• International Conflict of laws, forum disputes, child abduction, leave to remove children from the jurisdiction
• Marriage and Divorce Pre-and post-nuptial agreements, civil partnerships, forced marriage, annulment
• Children All aspects of private and public law relating to children, including contact, residence, care proceedings (acting also for parents and Local Authorities), adoption, wardship/inherent jurisdiction
• Injunctions Part IV Family Law Act, freezing injunctions

Cases

Staden v Jones [2008] EWCA Civ 936 (Junior Counsel to Val le Grice QC)

     - trusts, survivorship, estates

Hudson v Leigh [May 2008 – application to strike out, Junior Counsel to Val le Grice QC); ultimately heard in CA Hudson v Leigh [2009] EWHC 1306 (Fam)]

     – status/definition of non-marriage

NG v KR [2009] 1 FLR 35 (pupil to Richard Todd QC)

     – validity of German pre-nuptial agreement

Pro bono

Inderjeet volunteers for Consultations Gratuites, a legal advice clinic for French speaking people living in London, and the Coalition for an International Court for the Environment (ICE).

In 2004, he interned at the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Delhi, India, and in 2006 he was a Student Director of the BPP Law School Pro Bono Unit. He has volunteered for Liberty and the Free Representation Unit.

Before coming to the bar, Inderjeet spent a few years working in the arts in London. He has travelled extensively and has lived in the USA, South America, India and continental Europe.