MAQBOOLS LAW

SERVICE OVERVIEW

Our Legal team are experienced in advocacy at all levels of court and in providing specialist advice in conference or in writing regarding the family Law in Pakistan. Areas of specialism include preventing the dissipation of assets, cases involving foreign or off-shore assets, complex trust arrangements, orders in respect of pensions and acting for interveners.The number of children who have significant links with more than one jurisdiction increases constantly as parents move country for business reasons and meet in the course of international travel.

Members of this team have acquired considerable experience and expertise in dealing with cases with an international element. Practice development in the areas of Child Abduction and International & Private Child Law Care and Adoption. The legal issues in relation to the Child Abduction within The Hague Convention and Non-Convention Countries .Our Family Finance Team undertakes a complete range of work from big money cases involving complex trust arrangements to modest value claims.

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We have an experienced team of specialists Lawyers who are able to offer practical, thorough and clear advice across a wide range of property-related fields. Our work often involves construing documents creating rights over land and we regularly handle cases which include probate or insolvency issues. Our members are regularly instructed to appear in a range of courts and tribunals including the Civil Courts and the Land Revenue Tribunals.We undertake all forms of real property work and are regularly instructed in disputes concerning restrictive covenants, easements, boundary disputes, adverse possession, co-ownership, trusts of land, proprietary estoppel, implied trusts, options and rights of pre-emption and mortgages.We are instructed in contentious work. Our Lawyers regularly act in cases involving trusts of land, constructive trusts, claims under the Inheritance , Property registration and its transfar,the construction and validity of wills, the administration of estates, disputes between personal representatives beneficiaries and third parties and general trust litigation.

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Since the Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan Act, 2012 have came into force we continue to provide a dedicated team providing specialist advice and representation as the new regime unfolds the intellectual property expertise. We provide a structure for focussed, integrated and flexible intellectual property services to clients, drawing on the wealth of wider media and entertainment experience already in the firm.The core areas of work undertaken include copyright, breach of confidence, passing off, contractual disputes, and advertising, the Data Protection Act, performers’ rights and moral rights. Other work undertaken includes trade mark work outside the sphere of comparative advertising, database right, design right and telecommunications/broadcasting regulation.

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Company law is the back-bone of our firm work, with a particular emphasis on company litigation. We cover all aspects of company law — from formation to dissolution, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, reductions and reorganisations of capital, Stock Exchange and other regulatory requirements, meetings, directors’ duties, shareholder rights and remedies, fiduciary duties, and all other aspects of company law, Insolvency and Restructuring , Mergers, acquisitions and market listing.

The Companies Ordinance 1984, The Companies (Court) Rules, 1997 and The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Act 1997, The Stock Exchanges (Corporatisation, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012 and The Securities Act 2015 involve the most significant exercise of amending and consolidating company law for decades. It raises numerous new issues to vex company lawyers. As specialists in this area, members of our firm are well placed to deal with these issues.

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We have always maintained a reputation for excellence in criminal advocacy, prosecuting and defending both in the trial court as well as in appeal. Our team have considerable expertise in drafting pleadings where fraud is alleged, whether against individuals or organised crime rings. Advice is given at all stages, from initial investigatory work through to pre-trial, on paper and in conference. Our trial expertise is considerable.We have a particular expertise in contempt of court proceedings where the original parties are alleged to have misled the court. Our criminal practitioners are specialists with a wealth of experience Our expertise are in General crime, cyber crime cincluding murder and serious sexual and drugs offences; Fraud and corporate/financial crime, Confiscation and asset forfeiture especially before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Anti Terrorism Court and the Courts Martial proceding in Judicial Review cases.