St Philips Chambers

Employment & Personal injury

Ishfaq Ahmed has over 20 years of experience, maintaining a rounded and varied practice spanning employment, personal injury and commercial law. His attention to detail, commercial acumen and advocacy skills are highly regarded. Ishfaq delivers an attuned, versatile and up-to-speed service each time.

Equally at home in the employment and personal injury arenas, Ishfaq covers all aspects of employment tribunal advocacy and advisory work on the one hand, as well as a broad RTA, maritime and Employer’s Liability / Public Liability personal injury practice on the other. Clients instruct Ishfaq for his straightforward style and approach, excellent standard of advice and his adaptable style of advocacy.

Ishfaq’s wider arbitration, commercial shipping specialism and his international expertise includes advising on complex, technical and cross-border issues. Whilst free-standing practice areas in their own right, these at the same time enhance the service he can provide in his employment and personal injury specialisms. Ishfaq is able to deal with complex contractual issues sitting at the interface of commercial and employment law and international aspects of personal injury work.

Called to the Bar 1999.

Ishfaq was also an external examiner on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC):

Advocacy, Conference and Resolution of Disputes Out of Court (2013 to 2016); Commercial Dispute Resolution and Practice, International Trade, International Commercial Practice and Alternative Dispute Resolution (2016 to 2020).

Arabic, French, Persian and Urdu

Committee Member – London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association (LCLCBA);

Secretary – Institute of Arbitrators, Thames Valley Branch;

Member – The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.

Master of Laws in Commercial Law (including International Law, International Commercial Litigation, International Commercial Arbitration and Individual Employment Rights) – The University of Bristol, Distinction Bar Vocational Course (BVC) – Inns of Court School of Law LLB Law – The University of Bristol, First Class Honors