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Parishil Patel has a wide ranging public law practice which encompasses health, community care, local government (including regulation, audit and standards), telecommunications, data protection and confidentiality, prisons, immigration, public international law, incapacity and best interests.
He has extensive experience of advising and acting for and against public bodies in judicial review claims (in the High Court), including claims brought challenging local and central government policy and involving statutory construction and in proceedings in various Tribunals. He also has extensive experience of arguing ECHR issues in domestic courts and advising on human rights in the policy context.
Over the last 8 years, Parishil has been regularly advising and acting in claims arising from the award of public and utilities contracts.
He also has a broad regulatory and disciplinary law practice acting for and against, amongst others, the SRA, GDC and NHS England.
Parishil is a CEDR accredited mediator.
Parishil is recommended by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 for Administrative & Public Law and also by Chambers & Partners for Court of Protection.
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“He will quite often drop everything at very short notice to help. Really responsive and really good at handling clients, he always gives great advice.” Chambers and Partners
Includes health, community care, local government (including regulation, audit and standards), telecommunications, data protection and confidentiality, prisons, immigration, public international law, incapacity and best interests.
Extensive experience of advising and acting for and against public bodies in judicial review claims (in the High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords), including claims brought challenging local and central government policy and involving statutory construction and in proceedings in various Tribunals (Parole Board, MHRT, Care Standards). Extensive experience of arguing ECHR issues in domestic courts and advising on human rights in the policy context.
Cases of Note
- Representing a NHS Trust in proceedings concerning the proper construction of NHS regulations relating to the remuneration of doctors for travelling time
- Advising a local authority as to the meaning of “residence” in section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Acting for Hackney Carriage drivers in a judicial review challenge to the local authority’s decision to de-regulate the market
- Acting for an auditor in a statutory appeal against the decision not to apply to court
- Advising a commercial company as to the merits of a judicial review challenge to a decision by the Vehicle Registration Agency
- Acting for the National History Museum in a judicial review challenge brought by an Aboriginal group for the repatriation of human bones
- Advising a telecommunications company in Trinidad & Tobago (with Nigel Pleming QC) in a judicial review challenge to the decision of the regulatory body fixing the pricing structure of market
- Acting for the Ministry of Justice in judicial review challenges concerning the proper statutory construction of transitional provisions challenging the early release provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003
- Representing a NHS trust in “right to die” proceedings
- Advising a local authority on vires issues in respect of the provision of continuing healthcare
- Acting for the Secretary of State in a judicial review challenge in which an Iraqi citizen claims jurisdiction under the ECHR (Article 1) for acts done by British armed forces in Iraq
- Representing NHS Trusts and prison governors defending Article 2 claims arising out of patient’s deaths and deaths in custody.
Includes policy disputes on insurance claims, product liability claims, VAT related disputes, employment related disputes, commercial agency agreements, building contracts, defective design and workmanship and claims for delay & disruption. Professional negligence claims involving solicitors, architects, engineers and surveyors.
Cases of Note
- Representing a large waste company in a commercial dispute relating to the recycling of WEEE. Claim worth £2.5 million; counterclaim worth £10 million
- Representing the Highways Agency in a claim against a major UK contractor for defective design and construction of the M60 motorway in a claim worth £45 million
- Advising a pharmaceutical company as to the effect of a Exclusive Distribution and Sale and Purchase Agreement relating to the introduction of products into the UK market
- Acting for a major UK engineering company on a claim for delay and disruption arising out of shutdown works in relation to a petrochemical plant worth £10 million
- Representing a claimant in a claim arising out of the wrongful repudiation of life insurance policies
Broad regulatory and disciplinary law practice acting for and against, amongst others, the SRA, GDC and the GSCC.
Cases of Note
- Obtaining orders for seizure of files and documents following the SRA’s intervention into Wolstenholmes LLP
- Advising a solicitor’s firm on the viability of setting up non-lawyer companies
- Representing GDC at Fitness to Practise hearings and at Interim Order Committees
Cases of Note
- Acting for a firm of solicitors in a claim against the LSC arising out of the tender for the 2010 Civil Contracts
- Advising a large consultancy firm in respect of the procurement exercise for the provision of consultancy services to government departments through framework agreements
- Advising a UK company in proceedings under the 2006 Regulations against a local authority
- Representing a UK company in proceedings under the 2006 Regulations against the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Advising a major UK company in respect of a contract award made by the British Library for facilities management under the 2006 Regulations
- Advising the Civil Engineering and Development Department of Hong Kong as to whether a process contract was formed during the tender process of a multi million pound construction project.
