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Shilpa Shah

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Contents

Costs & Litigation Funding 1 ......................................................................................................................... Personal Injury 2 ........................................................................................................................................... Inquests 2 ..................................................................................................................................................... Motor 2 ......................................................................................................................................................... Clinical Negligence 2 ....................................................................................................................................

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Shilpa Shah

Shilpa attended BPP Bar School where she won First Prize for Advocacy and gained a final overall mark whichput her within the top ten highest achievers of that year. Prior to that she had completed a Masters’ Degree inLaw, in which she achieved a Distinction (equivalent to First Class). She won the Gluckstein Prize for Advocacyfrom Lincoln’s Inn and won a Major Scholarship.

During her early years she worked with the Free Representation Unit and for the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Shilpa specialises in costs and personal injury-related cases.

At the request of the solicitor, Shilpa is happy to consider working under a suitable conditional fee agreement.She is also licenced to undertake direct access work.

She has considerable experience of resolving claims during the course of joint settlement meetings. Sheregularly attends court and is often complimented on her attention to detail and the thoroughness of herpreparation and presentation at trial.

Costs & Litigation FundingShilpa is an experienced costs and personal injury practitioner with a busy nationwide practice. She has asubstantial practice in all aspects of costs and litigation funding and regularly appears before all levels ofjudiciary from the County and High Courts to the Senior Court Costs Office and has had experience in theCourt of Appeal.

Whilst Shilpa has considerable experience in detailed assessment hearings, her practice covers every aspectof costs and litigation funding issues including costs budgeting and costs management issues, applicationsto revise costs budgets, oral review hearings for provisionally assessed bills, wasted costs applications,solicitor / own client disputes and appeal hearings. She has been involved in group litigation costs mattersand where numerous cases said to be linked by similar fact issues are heard together.

Shilpa provides costs talks and speaks at conferences. She has spoken at the prestigious Association ofCosts Lawyer’s Annual Manchester Costs Conference, sharing a platform with other established practitionersand Senior Costs Judges.

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Personal InjuryHer realm of personal injury work covers all aspects of liability disputes at higher value Fast Track and MultiTrack and catastrophic injuries, embracing a broad variety of personal injury work including accidents at work,road traffic accidents, occupier’s liability claims, highways claims, sports injuries, clinical negligence, casesinvolving allegations of fraud, group litigation and industrial injuries.

She has particular experience of claims involving spinal injuries, significant orthopaedic injuries, psychiatricinjuries, brain injury and injuries suffered by children.

InquestsShilpa is regularly instructed to attend Coroner’s Inquests and has recently handled matters involving careproviders, hospitals, road traffic accidents, workplace accidents and infant deaths. Such instructions may bein conjunction with a fatal accident claim, or as a stand-alone instruction.

MotorShilpa has had over fifteen years’ experience in dealing with motor claims cases, including fatal accidentclaims, multiple party actions and cases involving the Motor Insurers Bureau. Within this time she hasdeveloped a specialism in counter-fraud defences and was involved in some of the first cases involving socialmedia and mobile phone metadata analysis.

She continues to be instructed regularly in claims where fraud had been alleged, accepting instructions forboth Defendants and Claimants. Overlapping with her costs practice, she regularly deals with advices andhearings involving costs arguments where issues of fundamental dishonesty are raised.

Clinical NegligenceAlongside her personal injury work, Shilpa accepts instructions in clinical negligence and professionalregulation matters. She is able to assist with all aspects of such matters, from early conferences and advices,through to advising on evidence, settling case papers and representing clients at hearings.

Appointments

Direct Access Qualified

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Memberships

Affiliate member of the Association of Costs LawyersPersonal Injuries Bar AssociationNottinghamshire Medico-Legal Society

Education

LLB, Brunel UniversityLLM, University of Huddersfield

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