Barrister, Outer Temple Chambers, London
Aliyah Akram is acknowledged as a leading junior in personal injury litigation. She is renowned for her expertise and experience in group litigation in all of the core areas in which she practices. Many of her cases have an international aspect and give rise to both jurisdictional issues and conflicts of laws.
She is ranked by the legal directories in personal injury, travel: international personal injury and industrial disease.
Aliyah is frequently instructed in high-value cross-border personal injury cases. Her practice is wide ranging and has included acting on behalf of security personnel injured in the course of their work in Syria and Iraq, plastic surgery patients injured as a result of sub-standard care and for holiday makers involved accidents across the world. She regularly acts in aviation and maritime claims too.
Her specialism in international work crosses over with her disease practice and group litigation expertise. For example, she is currently instructed in group of claims brought by South African claimants exposed to asbestos from historic mining operations. She acted in Vilca & Ors v Xstrata Plc & Xstrata Tintaya in which she dealt with quantum issues for Peruvian environmental protestors who had been attacked and tortured as a result of their involvement in a demonstration and The Bodo Community v The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria where she assisted with a mediation in a claim brought by a fishing community for extensive environmental damage caused by an oil spill in the Niger Delta.
Aliyah is regularly instructed by serving and former soldiers. These claims often involve cross-border issues. She is currently acting for large groups of military personnel who have variously suffered non-freezing cold injury, noise-induced hearing loss or have been exposed to asbestos in the course of a multinational operation.
Directories:
She is tenacious and has an awareness of the bigger picture. – Chambers & Partners, 2023
Approachable and responsive, Aliyah gives confident and thorough advice. – Legal 500, 2023
She is really bright, responsive and excellent both with clients and on her feet in court. – Chambers & Partners, 2022
She is very thorough and down to earth with clients, great on her feet and unfazed when opposite QCs. – Chambers & Partners, 2021
Website: https://www.outertemple.com/barrister/aliyah-akram/
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