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Experience
Geeta has a multi-disciplinary practice, with a focus on housing, civil actions against public authorities, equality and international law. She is recognised for her thoughtful and creative approach and is exceptionally committed to her clients.
Drawing on her experience across multiple practice areas, she is adept at developing innovative legal strategies in pursuit of her clients’ rights. As such, Geeta is often instructed as sole counsel against more senior opponents in complex and challenging cases.
Housing & Community Care
Geeta provides advice and representation across all aspects of housing and homelessness law, and is committed to representing legally aided clients.
Much of Geeta’s housing work concerns discrimination and complex claims under the Equality Act 2010. She has particular expertise representing people with disabilities and takes pride in her clear and sensitive approach to such cases.
Geeta is also a freelance trainer for Shelter, Britain’s leading housing and homelessness charity
Civil Actions against Public Authorities
Geeta is adept at identifying and pursuing novel legal arguments to secure redress for those who have suffered abuse from state bodies and private entities.
She has extensive experience representing claimants for false imprisonment, assault, misfeasance in public office and claims under the Human Rights Act 1998, the Equality Act 2010, data protection legislation and privacy law.
Geeta has a particular interest in representing women. She has been involved in extensive litigation challenging the treatment of female prisoners, and has represented claimants regarding the police’s failure to investigate child sexual abuse.
Public Law
Geeta receives instructions across public law, specialising in housing, human rights and discrimination law.
Geeta represented the claimant in R (on the application of Peiris) v First Tier Tribunal and others [2023] EWCA Civ 1527, [2024] All ER (D) 18, a significant judicial review claim challenging the eligibility criteria of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 under Article 14 ECHR read together with Article 1 of Protocol 1.
Modern Slavery and Trafficking
Geeta’s international experience encompasses litigation, consultancy work, training and research with a focus on business and human rights. She has in-depth knowledge of how to use international and regional mechanisms to protect and promote human rights, and can advise clients on legal matters that touch on international and foreign law.
She is currently engaged in a collaborative project to improve labour conditions in the sandstone mining industry in Rajasthan, India. This has required designing and overseeing fact-finding missions in Rajasthan, researching and drafting reports and engaging with various stakeholders to develop innovative strategies to increase transparency and access to remedies across the supply chain.
Education
City Law School, BPTC
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Master in International Law
University of York, First class degree in Law
Professional Memberships
Police Action Lawyers Group
Human Rights Lawyers Association
Housing Law Practitioners’ Association
Languages
English
Italian
Awards
Shelford Scholarship (2018)
Rosie Keane Memorial Prize (2016)
Lord Denning Scholarship (2016)
Lalive Scholarship (2013)
The appeal concerned the refusal of a bereavement payment and funeral expenses to the appellant, following the tragic murder of his son in the UK.
Area of Law: Prison Law Judicial Review
— Read moreApplication for anti-social behaviour injunction dismissed.
Area of Law: Housing & Community Care Community Care Homelessness & Allocations Landlord & Tenant
— Read moreSuccessful appeal under section 204 of the Housing Act 1996
Area of Law: Housing & Community Care Homelessness & Allocations
— Read moreApplication for judicial review challenging the defendant’s refusal to extend accommodation to the claimant, who was subject to “no recourse to public funds” in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Area of Law: Housing & Community Care Community Care Prison Law Judicial Review
— Read moreRepresenting five women alleged to have been strip-searched unlawfully in custody.
Area of Law: Civil Law Actions against the Police
— Read moreSecured damages on behalf of her client arising from the Defendant’s alleged failure to perform their functions under the Children Act 1989 and related legislation.
Area of Law: Civil Law Actions against the Police Negligence
— Read moreRepresented two claimants in a claim brought under Articles 3 and 8 ECHR arising from the police’s alleged failure to investigate child sexual abuse.
Area of Law: Civil Law Actions against the Police
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