Outer Temple Chambers
Aliyah Akram is acknowledged as a leading junior in personal injury and industrial disease 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 has extensive expertise in catastrophic injury claims and has acted for numerous claimants who have suffered traumatic brain injury in road traffic and cycling accidents. Aliyah also has a particular expertise in fatal accident claims and has appeared in several significant High Court cases.
Aliyah represents thousands of serving and former military personnel in individual and group claims against the Ministry of Defence. Such claims arise from asbestos exposure, non-freezing cold injuries and noise-induced hearing loss. She is currently instructed in a group claim arising from toxic fumes in military helicopters. She is first junior on one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2025: the Military Deafness Litigation.
Her experience in mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease claims has afforded her a number of appearances in the Court of Appeal and the High Court. Her industrial disease practice crosses over with her international injury law expertise, acting in a group of claims brought by South African claimants exposed to asbestos from mining operations.
She is a contributing author of Asbestos: Law & Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition, 2022).