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Tel: 0113 242 1123 Fax: 0113 242 1124
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36 Young Street, Manchester, M3 3FT
Tel: 0161 832 9082 Fax: 0161 835 2139
DX: 718188 (MCH 3)
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Shokat Khan
Practice:
Personal Injury work
Professional Negligence
Employer's and public liability
Industrial disease
Road traffic
Clinical negligence
UK Immigration and Nationality Law
Profile:
Shokat has specialised in Personal Injury and associated Professional Negligence work for at least 15 years. He undertakes a broad range of work acting for both Claimants and Defendants in all types of claims. He has long and considerable experience in all courts up to, and including, the Court of Appeal, giving him an excellent grounding in advocacy. Main areas of work include: professional negligence, employers' liability, public liability, industrial disease, road traffic accidents and clinical negligence. He has a wealth of experience of high value claims, including head injury claims and fatal accidents.
He is happy to undertake legal expenses and conditional fee work.
His career has embraced wide-ranging experience in general common law, and he continues to have a particular interest in UK Immigration and Nationality Law. He has significant experience in these areas.
Significant Work includes:
Shokat acts as legal advisor to a group of National Newspapers based in Manchester, providing advice on libel and contempt of court. His experience of this type of work extends to more than 15 years.
Significant Reported Cases:
Thorpe v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [1989] 2 All ER 827
Sohbat Ali v Leeds CC (1984) 47 P & CR 449
Memberships:
Personal Injury Bar Association
Northern and North Eastern Circuits
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Universities:
Degree: Year of Call: Joined Chambers: |
Warwick (LLB)
London School of Economics (LLM) 1979 (Middle Temple) 1979 |
Other career details:
Shokat was formerly a College Lecturer. He regularly provides seminars and training sessions for specialised departments within individual law firms and medical practitioners with interest in medico-legal work. In recent months he has given seminars on the subjects of low velocity impacts, occupiers` liability, minimising and maximising damages and credit hire law. In November 2006, he was one of the main speakers at the TCC medico-legal conference held at Warwick Castle.
Languages spoken:
Urdu, Punjabi
Year of Call: 1979
Specialises In:
Personal Injury & Clinical NegligenceClerked by:
Stephen Loxton
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