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.
Construction and 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 Avoidance
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.
Pro Bono
Legal Advice & Representation
Sheraz is available for pro bono legal advice and representation to assist litigants in person.
Trainings
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.
Languages
English
Urdu
Punjabi
Memberships
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)
Qualifications
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
Publications
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.
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.
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.
