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Mian Sheraz Javaid

Mian Sheraz Javaid

Call: 2020

Expertise

Business & Property

Mian Sheraz Javaid is a Door Tenant with the Business and Property team and accepts instructions in all areas of commercial, construction, property, and chancery disputes, and specializes in Construction and Energy Law.

Sheraz has considerable experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, including advising, drafting, pleadings, and representing parties in a broad range of commercial and chancery disputes. He acts on behalf of parties in applications and trials in the High Court and County Courts.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mian Sheraz Javaid is a Door Tenant with the Business and Property team and accepts instructions in all areas of commercial, construction, property, and chancery disputes, and specializes in Construction and Energy Law.

With over two decades of experience, Sheraz has emerged as a leader in Construction and Energy Law. As a civil engineer turned barrister, Sheraz incorporates his invaluable civil engineering experience into his practice.

Construction & Energy Law

With over 2 decades of experience, Sheraz has emerged as a leader in Construction and Energy Law. As a civil engineer turned barrister, Sheraz incorporates his invaluable civil engineering experience into his practice.

Other than his litigation practice, Sheraz has extensive transactional and contentious commercial law experience within the construction and energy sectors. His dual qualifications make him uniquely placed to advise on complex energy and construction law matters. He advises international clients and governments on all aspects of construction law, ranging from litigation to alternative dispute resolution (ADR), Mediation, Adjudication, Neutral Evaluation, Expert Determination, Arbitration, licensing, regulatory issues, etc.

Sheraz is widely considered an expert on construction contracts. His practice offers contract drafting/negotiation, contract review, and standard forms of contract including FIDIC, JCT, and NEC with the added surety of how those matters are argued and interpreted in courts.

 

Dispute Resolution

Sheraz has a thriving ADR practice and currently serves as the Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Pakistan Branch. He is available for appointments as arbitrator, adjudicator, and/or mediator by party agreement and from various institutes. As a CIArb Fellow, a major part of his ADR practice focuses on Arbitration. Sheraz has successfully represented parties in Arbitrations in the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Pakistan.

Dispute Aviodance

In addition to dispute resolution, Sheraz also offers dispute avoidance services. Sheraz regularly advises clients in the construction and energy sectors, guides stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, and trains managerial staff on standard forms of contract and ADR.

International

Mian Sheraz Javaid is a Door Tenant with the Business and Property team and accepts instructions in all areas of commercial, construction, property, and chancery disputes, and specializes in Construction and Energy Law.

With over two decades of experience, Sheraz has emerged as a leader in Construction and Energy Law, and further offers his services in International Arbitration and Trade. As a civil engineer turned barrister, Sheraz incorporates his invaluable civil engineering experience into his practice.

Sheraz has a thriving ADR practice and currently serves as the Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Pakistan Branch. As a CIArb Fellow, a major part of his ADR practice focuses on Arbitration. He has successfully represented parties in Arbitrations in the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Pakistan.

He advises international clients and governments on all aspects of construction law, ranging from litigation to alternative dispute resolution (ADR), Mediation, Adjudication, Neutral Evaluation, Expert Determination, Arbitration, licensing, regulatory issues, etc. Sheraz is widely considered an expert in disputes arising out of construction contracts. His practice offers contract drafting/negotiation, contract review, and standard forms of contract including FIDIC, JCT, and NEC with the added surety of how those matters are argued and interpreted in courts and in ADR.

In the last 10 years Sheraz has conducted arbitrations involving a broad spectrum of legal matters pertaining to construction, power, energy, oil & gas, and property disputes. He has dedicated his efforts to developing his arbitration skills and gaining the requisite qualifications to operate in multiple jurisdictions through well-reputed platforms and organizations. He has recently redoubled his contributions to cross-national development, standardization, training, and formalization of arbitration practices in Pakistan.

Sheraz is available for both, appointment as an Arbitrator, as well as representation as counsel.

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Mian Sheraz Javaid joins No5 as a Door Tenant

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  • The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors
  • Fellow of Prime Dispute
  • Punjab Bar Council Pakistan
  • Lahore Bar Association
  • Lahore High Court Bar Association
  • Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
  • Institute of Engineer’s Pakistan (IEP)
  • Society of Construction Law (SCL)
  • Bar Transfer Test (BTT), BPP
  • King’s College London, MSc (Construction Law & Dispute Resolution)
  • University of the Punjab, LLB
  • University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, BSc (Civil Engineering)
  • University of the Punjab, BA
  • English
  • Urdu
  • Punjabi
  • A New Mediation Act? The Way Forward for Pakistan Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business – Volume 43, 2021 · Nov 9, 2021
    2021
    A detailed review of the benefits of ADR and the need for a bespoke mediation act for Pakistan.
    https://law-store.wolterskluwer.com/s/product/the-comparative-law-yearbook-of-international-business-volume-43/01t4R00000OVL7H
  • Innovation in Construction Technology in the UK, influenced by accidents reduces legal risks – Construction Law International · Jul 1, 2018
    2018
    Reviewing the roles construction failures and accident investigations have played in leading to technological innovations reducing the overall legal risks and costs deriving from those failures either by (1) reducing the failures and risks or (2) making the definition of legal liabilities more effective as a result of a more efficient collection of relevant data and information.
    https://www.ibanet.org/Publications/CLINT-july-2018
  • China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – Dispute Resolution Mechanism Transnational Dispute Management · Jun 1, 2017
    2017
    Reviewing the significance of CPEC and its impact Pakistan and the surrounding region and a discussion on the methodologies and routes to efficacious dispute resolution during the life cycle of the project.
    https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=2484

Legal Advice & Representation
Sheraz is available for pro bono legal advice and representation to assist litigants in person.

Sheraz regularly provides ADR lectures at prestigious institutions around the globe. He also enjoys the honor of serving on CIArb’s Approved Faculty List (AFL), through which he provides International Arbitration Mediation, and Adjudication training to engineers, barristers, solicitors, and public sector organization employees across the globe.

Related News, Resources and Events

News


Mian Sheraz Javaid joins No5 as a Door Tenant

No5 Barristers’ Chambers are delighted to welcome Mian Sheraz Javaid as our newest Door Tenant. Sheraz is dual qualified as a civil engineer and barrister….

View all related news

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Geoff Carr

Director of Clerking (London)

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07852 317495

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Director of Clerking (Birmingham)

danielg@no5.com

07960 831815

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