Imran Shafi

Criminal

Imran is widely regarded as one of the leading criminal barristers on circuit, if not nationwide. He is instructed in the most serious criminal matters and has appeared in numerous groundbreaking cases. A dozen or so of his Court of Appeal cases are reported in the leading criminal textbooks.

In recognition of his ability and experience, he was appointed King’s Counsel and a Recorder of the Crown Court.

Solicitors and clients seek him out for his legal knowledge, his performance in court and his incredible work ethic. He strives to do his utmost to represent his clients to the best of his ability and achieves great results. Unsurprisingly, he is very much in demand, client’s securing his services at the earliest opportunity, often pre-charge.

He is renowned for his track record of having cases discontinued, dismissed and successfully applying to exclude evidence.

He has a great rapport with everyone from clients to solicitors through to Judges. Treating everyone with courtesy and respect.

In recent years, his practice has increasingly featured ‘paper heavy’ fraud and complex money laundering allegations. His meticulous preparation, logical approach and ease with accounting and financial evidence lends itself well to defending in this specialist area.

In addition to his recognised strength in fraud, he is frequently retained to defend in, murder, terrorism, serious drugs conspiracies, gang violence and large-scale immigration facilitation cases.

Imran’s instructions are increasingly private, however he does still accept instructions in serious publicly-funded work.