Hala Helmi

Call 2000
Email hala.helmi@3pb.co.uk
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Hala Helmi is a member of the Commercial and Business Law Group, and the Public Law and Regulatory Group.

Hala was a pupil at 3PB in 2001-2002, became a tenant in 2002, and has been a member of 3PB since.

Key areas of her practice include:

• Jurisdictional issues arising out of cases with a foreign element – where to issue and serve proceedings, where cases will be heard, and who to sue.
• Contractual disputes.
• Sale of goods and supply of services.
• Insolvency and bankruptcy.
• Partnership disputes
• Equine contractual disputes (relating to the sale of horses, with particular experience of veterinary reports on degenerative conditions affecting high-value livestock)

Public and regulatory

Following her previous membership of the 3PB Criminal Group, Hala has built up a niche practice specialising as follows:

• All driving and vehicle offences.
• Animal litigation (civil actions under the Animals Act 1971; offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Animal Welfare Act 2006; control and destruction orders, deprivation orders and disqualification orders).

Please see her specialist profiles for further information.

Academic information

Hala has taken time out of practice to work on her doctoral thesis. The subject of the thesis is the maritime delimitation of the continental shelf in the Arabian Gulf undertaken at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. A focus of the thesis is a study of existing maritime boundaries dividing the continental shelf between the Gulf states, and how the drawing of those boundaries has been affected by the presence of offshore natural resources, and islands. The need to know where such boundaries lie is crucial not only for governments in the region, but also for those bodies which are involved in the offshore extraction of oil and gas. Another focus of the study is how disputed and undefined boundaries in the continental shelf may be resolved in the light of the solutions which have already been reached in the region.

Personal information

Working knowledge of Arabic.

Horse owner and keen horse rider.