Sunny Virk

Having worked as a solicitor and solicitor advocate, Sunny holds an extensive background conducting complex litigation, and as such understands the difficulties solicitors face when supporting clients.

In his role as a barrister, he holds extensive expertise in the areas of credit hire, personal injury claims, and fraud and fundamental dishonesty, and carries this experience in tackling complex disputes into his mediation practice.

Areas of Expertise

Sunny regularly conducts mediations both online and in person, resolving complex commercial and civil disputes. In particular, he can offer support in:

• Building and Construction Disputes
• Business and Commercial claims
• Chancery and Property Claims (including Boundary Disputes)
• Consumer Credit
• Costs Disputes
• Family Finance & Intervenor Claims
• General trust and TOLATA claims
• Landlord & Tenant (Commercial and Residential)
• Medical Negligence and Personal Injury
• Partnership Disputes
• Professional Negligence & Dispute with Clients
• Trust, Probate and Inheritance Act Claims
• Workplace Mediations

Sunny regularly conducts mediations both online and in person, resolving even the most complex commercial and civil disputes, including:

• Business and Commercial Claims – resolving disputes between companies including premise owners, tenants and counterclaims for breach of contractual terms
• Consumer Credit 
• Business & Property Claims – Sunny successfully settled a circa £4 million dispute amongst family members involving numerous properties that had been purchased over decades, re-mortgaged or sold to fund future property purchases and business ventures
• Trust, Probate and Inheritance Act Claims – saving thousands of pounds in trial costs by bringing disputes over inheritance to settlement and closure
• Family Finance
• TOLATA
• Building and Construction Disputes – settling general building disputes between homeowners (inc boundary) and building firms and claims by commercial building owners, including against national suppliers
• Professional Negligence & Dispute with Clients – concluding disputes over fees, including between solicitors and their clients with counterclaims of professional negligence
• Medical Negligence / Personal Injury / Costs Disputes – Sunny successfully settled a dispute over the largest Bill of Costs faced by a Royal College, which would have otherwise gone to a 14-day assessment hearing

Examples

• Feb 2017 - Sunny successfully resolved a claim between a serviced office company and their tenants over unpaid service charges. The tenant made counterclaims for breach of contractual terms concerning the provision of services.

• Feb 2020 - Sunny successfully settled a claim for chattels, property and money made by a wife against her ex-husband who also happened to be her business partner.
Professional Negligence & Dispute with Clients

• Apr 2019 - Sunny was happy to resolve a dispute over fees between Solicitors and their client. Solicitors had pursued a client for £50,000 (fees and interest). The client was contesting that invoices as having been paid for the work properly done and proposing to bring a counterclaim in professional negligence along with making a compliant to the SRA. The mediation process resolved all issues.

• Dec 2017 - Sunny mediated a circa £4 million business dispute amongst family members involving numerous properties that had been purchased over decades, re-mortgaged or sold to fund future property purchases and business ventures. The matter was complicated by an ongoing divorce and rival claims between mature children from a mistress against mature children from the marriage. During the mediation, Sunny also had to deal with a bone of contention that arose with one child's marrying out of caste.
Building & Construction Disputes

• Aug 2020 – Sunny helped resolved a long running dispute between a family run farm and supplier of specialist brooders for pheasants.   

• Sept 2019 - Sunny also settled a general building dispute where the homeowners pursued the building firm for various alleged breaches of contact in the part-construction and renovation of their Cotswold’s home. The building firm was counterclaiming for unpaid sums for services rendered.

• Mar 2018 – A claim was made by commercial building owners against a national window company for failure to supply and fit proper commercial-grade double-glazed windows and window housing to one of its large commercial premises. The window company was counterclaiming for the cost of supply and fitting of the windows. The claim was successfully settled. 

• Dec 2016 - Sunny mediated a dispute between two competing committees of a large London Sikh Gurdwara. The mediation was attended by 40 members of the committee, and despite competing claims for management, an agreement was reached in principle on all issues in dispute. A future date for an AGM was to be fixed between solicitors.

• Dec 2016 – In a dispute that centered on s.1 of the Inheritance (provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975, TOLATA 1996, the mediation allowed for settlement and closure. The settlement reached saved thousands of pound in trial costs.

• Dec 2018 - Sunny successfully settled a dispute over the largest Bill of Costs faced by a Royal College, which would have otherwise gone to a 14-day assessment hearing. Following a separate mediation in which liability for medical negligence was admitted, a second mediation was held to resolve issues over costs. Both parties selected Sunny for his impartially and professionalism.

• Professional Negligence & Dispute with Clients – concluding disputes over fees, including between solicitors and their clients with counterclaims of professional negligence

• 1 September 2023

  Property

  Outcome: Did Not Settle
• 5 May 2023

  Landlord/Tenant

  Outcome: Settled
• 8 March 2023

  Commercial

  Outcome: Settled
• 9 February 2023

  Building

  Outcome: Did Not Settle
• 25 January 2023

  Inheritance

  Outcome: Settled
• 3 October 2022

  Building Dispute

  Outcome: Settled
• 28 September 2022

  Boundary

  Outcome: Did Not Settle
• 7 July 2022

  Probate

  Outcome: Settled
• 24 June 2022

  Boundary Dispute

  Outcome: Settled
• 10 May 2022

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 21 February 2022

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 20 July 2021

  Property

  Outcome: Settled
• 9 March 2021

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 17 August 2020

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 10 May 2020

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 10 February 2020

  Property

  Outcome: Settled
• 30 September 2019

  Commercial

  Outcome: Settled
• 17 April 2019

  Debt

  Outcome: Settled
• 13 December 2018

  Costs

  Outcome: Settled
• 14 March 2018

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 1 December 2017

  TOLATA

  Outcome: Settled
• 28 February 2017

  Contract

  Outcome: Settled
• 7 December 2016

  Religious Building Dispute

  Outcome: Partial Settlement
• 1 December 2016

  Inheritance

  Outcome: Settled