Farhan Asghar

Farhan Asghar is a barrister with extensive experience in all types of costs matters, alongside a wide-ranging property, probate and trusts practice. He defends claims for costs, advises on challenges to solicitors' bills and retainers, and represents clients at hearings in the High Court, the Senior Courts Costs Office and the County Court. He is experienced in conditional fee and damages-based agreements, insurance and funding arrangements, solicitor, client and inter-partes assessments, and complaints to the Legal Ombudsman, and can advise on enforcement, time to pay, charging orders and orders for sale.

His property and private client work encompasses co-ownership and TOLATA claims, probate and trust disputes, charitable trusts, the validity of wills, worldwide freezing orders, enforcement of foreign judgments, removal of executors and trustees, breach of trust and fiduciary duty, estoppel and undue influence claims. His practice routinely involves parties or properties in foreign jurisdictions.

My approach

Farhan takes a proactive, hands-on approach, assisting from the pre-action stage through to trial and consequential matters such as enforcement and costs challenges. He offers pragmatic solutions and, where appropriate, advises on and attends mediation or negotiation.

Notable cases

• Ullah v Ullah [2023] EWHC 3313 (KB), acted for the successful appellant in a multi-million-pound claim involving breach of trust, dishonest assistance and self-dealing; set aside an order striking out the claim, secured permission to amend and remittal for trial.
• Din v Aslam (PT-2019-0008843), instructed on a claim for delivery up of estate assets from a personal representative, with a freezing order granted given a risk of dissipation and a defendant abroad.
• NF v SF, a claim for an equitable interest in a property arising from a verbal agreement between mother and son.
• SK v HM (GPT-2020-000663), a challenge to the validity of four wills, in an estate worth over £10 million, on grounds of undue influence.