MURRIA SOLICITORS - Key Persons


Amandeep Kang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Solicitor
  • Assistant Solicitor / Commercial Property
Amandeep is 23 years old, she is a LLB Law graduate and have experience in the areas of Criminal, Employment and Family Law. Amandeep has completed her LLB Law degree from the University of Wolverhampton with a First Class. Amandeep has recently accomplished her Legal Practice Course whilst working full time at Murria Solicitors.

Balraj Singh Sahota

Job Titles:
  • Director ( Head of Magistrates Court )
  • Director / Solicitor - Advocate ( Crime )
Balraj first qualified as a solicitor in 1987 before joining Murria Solicitors in 1989. He has an excellent reputation in the industry and has been a Birmingham Magistrates Court Duty and Police Station Duty Rota solicitor since 2001. Balraj attends clients under arrest and on a voluntary basis at police stations and Magistrates Court proceedings and is a committed and fierce Trial Advocate who has regularly appeared in the Magistrates Court across the Midlands for over 25 years. He is tasked with ensuring all clients are able to benefit from his vast experience and through his continuity of representation he has ensured a loyal clientele. Experience: Balraj specialises in a number of areas including domestic violence, assault, public order offences, robbery, burglary, possession of offensive weapons and conspiracy offences as well as road traffic offences including drink driving, totting up procedures, exceptional hardship, special reason arguments and Section 172 Notices. He specialises in representing private clients in Criminal defence work in the Magistrates Court, ensuring all clients receive the high standard of representation that they require.

Bharat Murria

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor
Bharat completed his law degree at the London School of Economics and went on to complete the Bar Professional Training Course at Lincoln's Inn, London. He was called to the Bar in 2013 and then later decided on a qualification route to become a Solicitor. Prior to qualifying as a Solicitor, he worked as a paralegal at Murria Solicitors for over five years and made substantial progress in areas of civil litigation. He is noted for his drafting skills, achieving one of the highest marks in his Bar cohort in the Drafting Module. Areas he has significant experience in include banking law, property disputes, intellectual property, defamation and land tribunal proceedings. He also undertakes court of protection work and is experienced in completing applications to restore companies and extending time for legal charge registrations. Aside from civil litigation, Bharat now has a growing expertise in private client and can accept instructions for wills, probate and tax advice. Expertise: Property, Landlord & Tenant, Defamation, Court of Protection, Company Applications, Private Client

Davina Dworkin

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Donna Pardoe

Job Titles:
  • Legal Assistant
  • Conveyancing Secretary
  • Legal Assistant - Property Department
Donna is a legal assistant that specialises in residential conveyancing. She has worked in the legal profession for 10 years and beat a shortlist of 500 employees to be named Legal Assistant of the Year. She is tasked with helping to retain the firm's Conveyancing Quality Scheme accreditation and maintaining the bank mortgage panels. Donna has also trained junior staff in administration and maintained and tailored the practice's case management services. Donna assists a Director and Senior Solicitor ensuring a comprehensive administrative service can be delivered to the department. Donna is a self-motivated team-player with a remarkable ability to go the extra mile for the firm's clients and an excellent willingness to learn. She has an ILEX legal secretaries diploma as well as A levels in law and business. Expertise: Secretarial skills, legal knowledge, computer literacy, discretion, dealing with confidential information, working to deadlines, multi-tasking. Interests: Donna's interests include socialising with friends, cinema and art. Her artwork has been exhibited at Birmingham Airport.

Fernanda Zaramello

Job Titles:
  • Legal Secretary
  • Executive Legal
  • Legal Secretary - Civil Litigation
Fernanda has a great deal of experience dealing with multi-platform work and has an excellent track record when it comes to assisting Senior Lawyers. She provides quality support for Lawyers and Directors and is noted for her time optimisation, information management and account management skills. She regularly organises conferences and remote meetings via the internet and video, controls contracts, adapts commercial systems for business requirements and builds strong relationships with Clients and Suppliers. Expertise: Fernanda is an executive legal secretary with vast experience in working in legal offices in Brazil, Italy and the UK.

Galwinder Singh Kang

Job Titles:
  • Trainee Solicitor
  • Director / Head of Department - Claims / Litigation
Galwinder joined Murria Solicitors as a trainee solicitor in 1992 and qualified as a solicitor in December 1994. He was appointed a partner at the practice in 2003 and became a director and shareholder when the firm incorporated into a limited company. Throughout his career, Galwinder has dealt with a vast range of predominantly claimant litigation matters. He has experience in handling all kinds of litigation and enjoys challenging and complex cases. He has acted for defendants on many insurance-related matters in recent years, including many defendants left without insurance cover due to allegations of dishonestly and non-disclosure. He also acts for both commercial and residential landlords and tenants in claims relating to property. He is noted for his negotiation skills and is able to present a robust case regardless of the circumstances. Recently, Galwinder has acted on behalf of professional golfer in a complex case, ensuring he was able to gain a substantial settlement for his client following a career-threatening injury. He recently managed to favourably negotiate a settlement in a claim where a pension company paid benefits twice and sought to recover the overpayment. He has also defended a company in a case of alleged patent infringement relating to goods imported from China. Currently, Galwinder is acting on behalf of a former NHS employee in a claim against a number of hospital trusts for release of his personal data without his consent. Galwinder has recently settled a professional negligence claim against a firm of solicitors arising out of its handling of our client's case. He has further dealt with a misrepresentation claim in relation to the sale of a house to our client. Galwinder also has experience in representing clients with brain injuries, ensuring their long-term needs are catered for as part of settlements. He has managed various fatal accident claims and represented various overseas claimants pursing claims in the UK. Galwinder has been involved in challenging insurance companies' decisions to void policies, defending allegations of ‘fundamental dishonesty', pension company disputes, defending nurses and care workers in ‘fitness to practice' hearings, procurement challenges, and assisting landlords and tenants in matters including seeking possession and breach of covenant. Galwinder is highly-experienced in taking on complex, distinctive cases whilst identifying relevant issues and breaking apart an opponent's case. He takes great interest in cases from the outset, working closely with leading specialist barristers who are chosen due to their expertise. He is renowned amongst his peers for his meticulous preparation.

Gaurav Singh

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor
  • Senior Solicitor / Solicitor - Civil Litigation
Gaurav has more than 12 years of experience behind him and works closely alongside the Managing Director of the practice. He is the civil litigation department's second-in-command and is able to make valuable on-the-spot decisions to support his clients. He has experience in a vast spectrum of complex, high-profile cases, many of which have been covered by the BBC and the 2017 Civil Procedure Rules (White Book). Gaurav has been involved in commercial litigation cases centred upon commercial landlord and tenant disputes, construction, high value debt recovery, property disputes, general commercial disputes, company law, professional negligence and many more. He has an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Westminster. Expertise: Property, insolvency, general civil and commercial litigation, charities, construction, insolvency.

Geeta Khuttan

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor / Head of the Conveyancing Department - Solicitor
  • Solicitor and Head of the Conveyancing Department
Geeta is a Solicitor and Head of the Conveyancing Department. She has over 15 years experience and specialises in Conveyancing. She can deal with all types of residential property transactions, including freehold and leasehold, new build, remortgages, right to buy, help to buy, buy to let, equity release, auction properties.

Gurbax Kulair

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Clerk

Hari Sangha

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director and Head of Immigration Department
Hari has over three decades of experience as a solicitor, beginning his career as an article clerk to Simon Barber, the Chief Legal Officer at Wrekin District Council. He has acted as an advisor to local councillors at various committee and local authority departments, providing guidance on all aspects of local government law and has practised with various firms in the Telford area. Hari co-founded Murria Solicitors in 1988 with two other partners and was appointed an Immigration Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) by the Lord Chancellor in 2002. He has presided over hundreds of immigration appeal cases and qualified as a Notary Public in 2009 after completing a two-year University of Cambridge course and being granted a faculty by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed as a Deputy District Judge (Civil) by the Judicial Appointments Commission in 2010. He has presided over a vast range of civil cases in the South Eastern circuit's County Courts. Experience Hari has advised private and corporate clients on all areas of law such as crime, employment, immigration, civil litigation, matrimonial and family matters, landlord and tenant-related issues, personal injury law, conveyancing and wills and probate. Hari has prosecuted for what was then known as the Department of Social Security and the Police prior to the launch of the Crown Prosecution Service, and has carried out criminal defence work as an advocate in the Magistrates Court. Expertise: Hari has knowledge of English law and practice and has specialised in all areas of immigration, nationality and human rights law over the past decade.

Hina Paw

Job Titles:
  • Senior Solicitor
Hina qualified in 2001 and focused on specialising in Criminal defence. She started her career in London and worked on a number of high-profile cases at the Central Criminal Court. She has worked in the West Midlands for the last 16 years. She qualified as a higher Court advocate in 2013 having been the head of the Crown Court Department in her previous role. Hina both prosecutes and defends giving her a wider scope of knowledge in Crime. She is a duty Solicitor and attends the police station regularly to represent those who are attending voluntarily or under arrest. Hina is particularly adept at assimilating evidence and narrowing down the issues to successfully defend clients in Court. She regularly appears in the Youth Court to defend vulnerable young people facing serious charges. This takes specialist knowledge, patience, and an ability to communicate to build relationships with them to successfully defend them.

Inderjit Singh Sahota

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor
Inderjit is a criminology with psychology graduate and successfully completed his legal conversion course before beginning his training with Murria Solicitors. Qualifying as a solicitor in 2010, he has worked on general litigation cases, to include debt recovery, misrepresentation claims and credit hire claims. He specialises in compensation claims and regularly represents claimants and defendants involving minor and major injuries, as well as representing interested parties in Inquests. He provides in-depth advice on settlement agreements and has substantial employment law knowledge, from which he received instructions from both Claimants and Respondents in Employment Tribunals. He has also handled a significant number of residential conveyancing purchases and sales.

Jagtar Singh Kulair

Job Titles:
  • Director / Solicitor - Advocate ( Crime ) VHCC Supervisor
  • Head of Crown Court & Business Crime Department
  • Head of Crown Court Department and Business Crime
Jagtar has worked at Murria Solicitors since 1988. Now as a Director, Jagtar is the Head of Crown Court & Business Crime Department and enjoys Higher Rights of Audience. He is also a recognised Specialist Fraud Panel Supervisor (authorised to defend clients in serious and complex fraud cases). He has established an enviable reputation for his expertise and proficiency, and is a recognised authority in his specialist field (who has been commended inter alia by the Lord Chief Justice and other senior members of the judiciary) for his exemplary preparation and presentation of written legal submissions. In addition, Jagtar is highly regarded and respected by his peers and is regularly referred to by other fellow legal professionals. His portfolio demonstrates a successful practice in defending clients in many serious, complex and high profile cases. His work also includes inter alia representing defendants' in homicide cases (having been involved in excess of 150 such cases including contract killing, baby shaking, gangland shootings, cases involving mental health issues etc ), serious sexual offences, arson, kidnap, and multi million pound drugs related offences. Recent Cases His robust approach has led to many successful challenges on legal issues and numerous reported law cases having been involved with over a 75 appeals against conviction and or sentence in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court - even in cases where Queen's Counsel or senior counsel had initially provided negative advice. Some of the reported cases have been leading authorities on important areas of criminal law. Two interlocutory appeals against decisions involving criminal trials by a judge alone were listed before the Lord Chief Justice having bypassed the initial review stage and consideration by a Single Judge. In both cases he was successful in challenging the Court's decisions (one having been made by the Presiding Judge of the Oxford and Midlands Circuit, now a Supreme Court Judge). In another case Jagtar was able to secure a Special Advocate (having challenged the Attorney General's initial refusal) in proceedings other than terrorism offences and was subsequently able to secure bail for his client. Jagtar's work is frequently referred to by fellow legal professionals across the UK. He is also known for making written representations during the early stages of investigations and prosecutions, so cases can be reviewed with a view to charges being dropped or prosecutorial decisions being overturned or reversed. Recently he represented a premiership footballer for an offence of robbery whereby he was successfully able to get the Crown Prosecution Service to review its decision to prosecute. This was contrary to the advice he had been given by two privately instructed independent solicitors appointed by his agent and the premiership football club respectively. Jagtar ensured that his client avoided any unnecessary national publicity and the footballer is now able to continue with his professional career. In recent times he acted in a national profile double murder and attempted murder attracting national media attention. He was also involved in a judicial review of a prosecutorial decision to bring charges of rape against a medical student at Oxford University, which was listed before the Vice President of the Court of Appeal Queen's Bench Division whereby the Prosecution sought to challenge the permission stage on the premise that many defendants (including high profile figures) had been refused similar permission for a judicial review hearing. The defendant was eventually acquitted and able to continue with his studies to complete his medicine degree. This was also as the result of obtaining a temporary reporting restriction of the proceedings at an early stage (in both the criminal and judicial review proceedings) and thus not bringing the reputation of the university into disrepute and the lack of reporting enabled the individual to be admitted as a member of General Medical Council. He has acted successfully in defending a teacher in allegations of multiple sexual assaults and a trainee teacher against allegations of section 18 Grievous Bodily Harm in proceedings before the Crown Court. Proceedings against a businessman wrongly accused of fraud and tax evasion were discontinued against defendants in a high profile case due to representations made by Jagtar. Currently he is involved in a £210 million money laundering investigation and an investigation into student visa system fraud exposed by Panorama and involved comments from then Home Secretary Theresa May. Expertise: Jagtar has specialised exclusively in criminal defence litigation since he qualified, and is an experienced and committed lawyer with a diverse portfolio of cases of high end criminal work having acted for a number of professional people including solicitors, barristers, Queen's Counsel, accountants, doctors, police officers, pharmacists, teachers and professional footballers and other internationally recognised sports personalities. Jagtar has worked on a diverse range of high-end criminal cases and is recommended in the Legal 500 UK. With extensive experience in the fields of complex and serious fraud, he has represented clients throughout the UK in financial crimes (some involving £100's of millions of pounds and with an international dimension). Furthermore, he has been involved in representing a defendant in confiscation proceedings involving circa £50 million. He is renowned for being instructed to act on behalf of defendants in White Collar Crime, Tax evasion, money laundering, serious fraud, trading standards, fire safety and health and safety investigations. He also advises on ancillary matters such as restraint of funds during investigation and trial as well as confiscation proceedings.

Kam Kaur

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Makhan Singh

Job Titles:
  • Director ( Crime )
  • Director / Solicitor - Advocate ( Crime ) Head of Crim
  • Director / Solicitor - Advocate ( Crime ) Head of Crime
Makhan first qualified in 1984 and was a court clerk and associate solicitor before helping to form Murria Solicitors. He was previously the former senior partner and also the founding partner of the firm in 1988. He has several accreditations and has defended a wide range of clients in serious allegations including homicide, fraud, VAT fraud, money laundering, drug-related conspiracies, historical sex offences, public office misconduct and many more. Makhan is a specialist in fraud and major crime and is known for his sensitive, understanding and friendly approach. He is a Higher Courts' Advocate and a Learning and Development Director, ensuring the firm's training and development processes are of the highest standard. He has also acted as an independent legal advisor to the Crown Prosecution Service Hate Crime Panel and features in the Legal 500 rankings, having worked on a series of high-profile regional and national cases in the past. Makhan also acts as a duty solicitor at police stations and Magistrates Courts. Expertise: Serious and grave crime, fraud, homicide, historic sex offences, drug-related crime.

Mark Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Mukesh Murria - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director / Head of Department - Civil Litigation, Wills and Probate
  • Trustee and Chair of the Development Committee of the Focus Birmingham ( Registered Charity
Upon completion of his law degree and Masters degree in taxation and advance securities law, Mukesh completed his training at Edge and Ellison and qualified as a solicitor in 1986. He joined Murria Solicitors 27 years ago and is now the Managing Director. He undertakes a broad range of civil litigation work, insolvency, contentious and non-contentious probate work, wills, inheritance tax planning and corporate work including company acquisitions. Background Mukesh has been a chairperson at the Asian Business Chamber of Commerce when it was known as the Institute of Asian Businesses, a director of the Birmingham and Training Enterprise Council working in further education, an executive member of the Board of Chamber of Commerce Birmingham and Governor of King Edwards School, Camp Hill as well as director at Birmingham Asian Business Association. Experience All aspects of civil litigation, insolvency, inheritance disputes, partnership disputes related to businesses, professionals and dissolution of partnerships, landlord and tenant disputes, contractual disputes, intellectual property, mortgage and guarantee, shareholder disputes, validation orders, preventing the winding up of companies, professional negligence, inheritance disputes, setting aside statutory demands, directors disqualification cases, trustee and executor disputes, bespoke company agreements, company acquisitions and more. Mukesh is currently a trustee and chair of the development committee of the Focus Birmingham (registered charity No. 1065745) which assists blind and visually-impaired people. He is a trustee of Science of Spirituality and the Lunar Society and helps various charities and good causes including international charities. He also works with a number of mosques and temples and supports their charitable work.

Naresh Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Solicitor
After three decades in private practice, Naresh has retired and is no longer practising. Naresh retired from private practice with Murria Solicitors in November 2019 but continues to provide consultancy services to the firm. He remains very much part of our team and is always on hand for his experience and expertise to be called upon. He is experienced in dealing with complex property matters, a strong client base and has represented various owner-managed businesses with multi-million-pound assets. During his service, he has dealt with both residential and commercial conveyancing, in working on a comprehensive range of property-related transactions and is renowned for his property knowledge.He has acted for clients in the acquisitions and disposal of care homes, nurseries, shops, restaurants and more. Expertise: sale and purchase of residential and commercial properties, acting on behalf of landlords and tenants in leasehold transactions, acting for developers on site acquisitions and disposals, undertaking a wide range of property finance and re-financing work. Memberships: Naresh is a member of the Law Society

Raj Deu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Solicitor / Solicitor - Advocate ( Crime )
Raj has over 15 years' experience in all aspects of criminal law. She advises and represents clients at police stations on all crimes including murder, rape, sexual offences against children and assaults.

Samantha Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Legal Secretary
  • Legal Secretary - Wills, Probate & Litigation