About us
History
Thakrar & Co was formed in 1982 by Jitesh Thakrar. He was joined in 1986 by his brother Sundip Thakrar who became a partner in 1995.
The firm practices from an office in Southall, and a satellite office in Hanwell has opened.
The firm is well known in the locality, and its policy is to provide a range of high quality legal services to individual and business clients in the area, to produce a reasonable return for the time and effort expended, to ensure that services are delivered in a manner which the clients can understand and relate to, and to be friendly and approachable.
Personnel
Jitesh Thakrar - Senior Partner (Southall)
Sundip Thakrar - Partner (Hanwell)
Naila Jabeen - Trainee Solicitor ( Southall)
Shantha Srideva - Secretary (JT)
Aditi Panesar - Secretary (JT)
K. Nagaratnam - Secretary (ST)
Trupti Thakrar - Accounts Manager ( Hanwell)
B Panesar - Accounts / IT Manager ( Southall)
Seema Thakrar - Administrator
Success rate of the firm
Over a period of time, the Firm has been involved in very large and complex Civil and Family as well as Immigration cases in the Supreme Courts which cases have received considerable media publicity and alos reported in the Law Journals. Some of the celebrated cases are :-
- WM ( DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT ( 2006)
- MURUGESU KANAPATHIPILLAI SRITHARAN v LAW SOCIETY ( 2005)
- LAW SOCIETY –V- M KANAPATHIPILLAI SRITHARAN : (1) M KANAPATHIPILLAI SRITHARAN (2) SIVAKALANITHY SIRVASANTHIRAN v LAW SOCIETY ( 2004)
- ANDREW RICHARD HUNTER v KENNETH EARNSHAW ( 2000)
- SOKHI CONSTRUCTION LTD v MANJIT SINGH LIT ( 2000)
- ALGER BROWNLESS & COURT COPY SERVICES LTD –V- JITESH THAKRAR ( T/A THAKRAR & CO (A FIRM)
- MR JITESH THAKRAR v THAMES VALLEY POLICE
- ISKCON v HOUSE OF FRASER
- REGINA v JASWANT SINGH BHARJ
- Mr V v Mrs V
- Mr Gill v Immigration
- Mr NAGDA v Mr SOLANKI
In the matter of J.T –V- Thames Valley Police, record damages were recovered from the Police force resulting from false Imprisonment and unlawful detention.