Manjinder Kaur Atwal

Practice Areas

Manjinder is a Director of Housing and Property Litigation at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She has over 15 years’ experience in housing and property litigation law. She litigates and handles a wide variety of housing and property law dispute cases including possession claims and eviction matters, landlord and tenant disputes, homelessness, disrepair, judicial review matters, review/appeals relating to local authority housing decisions, injunctions, boundary disputes, property nuisance/negligence claims, consumer and contractual matters, debt recovery and enforcement.

Manjinder has an excellent reputation for taking on the most difficult cases that no-one thinks can succeed and has gone on to obtain excellent results for her clients. Throughout her career, Manjinder has built strong relations with external agencies and is always on hand to answer housing queries and give guidance.

Manjinder also has considerable experience dealing with small claims cases to multi-track cases and undertakes her own advocacy in Court and Tribunals.

Career

Duncan Lewis Solicitors (2012 – present)

Clients

Manjinder acts for both landlords and tenants in the full range of social housing matters

Work Highlights

• Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd v TM (2021) EWCA Civ 1890

• Luton Community Housing Ltd v Durdana [2020] EWCA Civ 445

• Nolson, R (on the application of) v Stevenage Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 379

• Prempeh v Lakhany [2020] EWCA Civ 1422

• Stanley v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (2020) EWCA Civ 1458

• TM (by his litigation friend) v Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd [2020] EWHC 311 (QB)

• Hughes Jarvis Ltd v Searle & Anor [2019] EWCA Civ 1

• Bukartyk, R (on the application of) v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council [2019] EWHC 3480 (Admin)