About Bahareh Amani
Bahareh joined Hodge Jones and Allen as a Senior Associate in November 2018. Prior to this, she was at her previous firm for over 8 years where she was a Partner at the firm and one of the Housing supervisors for both Social Housing, Property Disputes and Residential Conveyancing.
She litigates across a broad range of areas of housing and property law disputes ranging from disrepair claims, landlord and tenant disputes, possession claims, review/appeals relating to local authority housing decisions. She also has experience in property disputes to include disputes concerning freeholders or leaseholders, and Notices issued by the Local Authority. She was the Duty solicitor at Barnet County Courts where she represented and acted on behalf of Tenants in defending possession proceedings, as well as acting for Landlords on possession matters.
Bahareh enjoys defending possession proceedings particularly involving invalid notices and pursuing matters of disrepair within the same set of proceedings which she enjoys as she is able to regularly negotiate and reach settlements for her clients.
Bahareh was promoted to Partner in May 2022 and she has moved to the firm’s Dispute Resolution Team where she continues to undertake Commercial and Residential Property Dispute work acting for Leaseholders, Freeholders, Landlords and Tenants. She also undertakes work in relation to General civil disputes, contested probate and contractual disputes.
"Bahareh is always very helpful, efficient and lets us feel comfortable with what she is doing."
Notable Cases
- Camden LBC v Tonello [2013] All ER (D) 72 (Jan), March 2013 Legal Action
- Chalmiston Properties Ltd v Boudia 2015, Barnet County Court, Legal Action Dec 15/Jan 16
- Private landlord seeking possession against a tenant for arrears of rent, despite the tenant suffering with extremely poor conditions. Settlement was reached whereby the client received compensation, repairs to his property and a fixed term tenancy agreement for 3 years with the rent being fixed to below market rate for the duration of his tenancy.
Client Comments
- “I have contacted Hodge Jones & Allen for my housing issues. My case was dealt by a Very highly professional solicitor Bahareh Amani and team. Excellent response I got from her everytime I contacted her. I felt very confident when she was dealing with my case. Me and my family couldn’t thank her enough for the work she has done to solve our problems.
I was very satisfied with the end result, where everything was solved with my satisfaction. I would like to say thank you for all the support and advice she has given to me. I would highly recommend this firm and solicitor Bahareh Amani to whoever has similar situation as mine. Thank you so much once again I really appreciated your outstanding work.”
- “Our problem was dealt with efficiently, quickly and sympathetically leading to a satisfactory conclusion. We would have no hesitation in recommending this firm of solicitors.”
- “A big thank you to my solicitor who was working on my housing case. I can’t thank you enough, her professionalism and service was fantastic from start to finish. And I’m grateful I went with a good company. I would highly recommend anyone who has housing issues ( big or small ) to use these guys.”
- “Bahareh is a first class solicitor. She is professional polite, understanding and caring. She explained the process, answered any questions I had and kept me informed every step of the way with my case of disrepair against my landlord.
The outcome was better than I could have hoped for thanks to Bahareh. If you need someone to fight your corner then Bahareh is the solicitor you need 100%. Fantastic service.”
- “I work with very vulnerable people in the community and I always refer them to HJA. Bahareh Amani who deals with housing matters has helped many of my referrals from defending evictions to ensuring that council’s and landlords duties to tenants are met. She has dealt with my referrals with kindness and compassion. She spends a lot of time supporting their emotional wellbeing which is rare with solicitors and what makes her stand out above the rest and a credit to what HJA stands for. I would highly recommend this firm.”
- “Since we met Bahareh at the initial 9 months ago to the end of concluding our case, she has shown a professionalism, consistency and appropriate advise and support on timely manner. We would like to thank her personally for the quality services she provided to us.” – Zewdie and Negash
Career & Personal Interests
Career
- Hodge Jones & Allen, November 2018 – Present
- SSP Law, April 2010 – 2018
- Trainee Solicitor at Baskin Ross and Co August 2008 – April 2010
Education
- MA History and Politics, Birkbeck University, 2014 – 2016
- Legal Practice Course – College of Law, 2007 – 2008
- Law LLB (Hons) 2:1– Queen Mary University of London, 2004 – 2007
Languages
- Fluent: Farsi (Persian)
- Basic Introductory: French, German and Arabic
Personal Interests
Bahareh enjoys travelling to different countries and continents and experiencing new cultures and languages, which she is always keen to learn. She is a passionate cook and enjoys hosting varied dinner parties and gatherings as well as eating out with friends and family.