Urnisha is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team. She qualified in 1997 and joined Carter Bond (now part of BRAND) after five years as a partner at R.R. Sanghvi & Co.

She has extensive experience in High Court and County Court litigation and mediation. She is highly skilled in commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters, including injunctions, forfeiture proceedings, the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, possession proceedings, service charge disputes, boundary disputes, and TOLATA claims. She has represented tenants in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords).

Urnisha specialises in contentious pharmaceutical intellectual property matters, including trademark infringement and parallel imports. She has significant experience in the High Court and the Regional Court of the European Court of Justice (CJEU). She also represents pharmacists in disciplinary proceedings before the GPhC.

Her practice also covers corporate and commercial matters, including multi-million-pound pharmaceutical trademark and commercial disputes, as well as complex general litigation.

Experience

Urnisha has also acted in a number of Trademark infringement cases in the parallel importation of medicinal products

London Diocesan Fund v Pithwa (Avonridge Property Co Ltd) [2005] 1 WLR 236 – Urnisha represented a number of tenants both in the Court of Appeal and House of Lords, on the issue of whether a provision in the head lease which purported to limit the liability of the original lessor so that it came to an end on his disposing of the reversion fell afoul of the anti-avoidance provisions of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995

A v17 Defendants – An Intellectual Property case in which Urnisha played a key role as part of a skilled litigation team representing an employer whose business was sabotaged by a mass exodus of seventeen of its members of staff, who infringed its Intellectual Property rights