Shaheen Rahman QC invited to speak at the JUSTICE Human Rights Law Conference 2018 - Oct 2018
Personal Injury
Shaheen acts in personal injury matters, often linked to her other practice areas of clinical negligence and prison law.
Selected Cases
- FG v MOJ [2017]: Acting for a prisoner with a known peanut allergy who was given food containing peanuts and suffered a stroke. Settlement was reached prior to trial.
- Whalley v (1) Erico Emea Corporation (2) MT NHST [2017]: For the Health Trust in a high value claim with complex causation issues. The Claimant suffered burns and blast injuries at work as a result of his employer’s negligence and a subsequent bowel perforation as a result of delayed surgery. Case settled at RTM.
- Fulton v (1) Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services UK Limited (2) Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (3) Balfour Beatty Major Projects [2016]: For First Defendant, the direct employer of a scaffolder injured when working at a hospital where multiple contractors had access to the site. Case settled prior to trial.
- KE v MOJ [2010]: For former female prisoner who brought an action alleging assault by a fellow prisoner and sexual assault by prison officers, settled at mediation.
Shaheen Rahman QC to speak at Hill Dickinson’s Medical Lecture Series 2018 with Prof. Derek Tuffnell and ENS Representatives - Oct 2018
Shaheen Rahman QC joins consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Professor Derek Tuffnell as well as ENS Team Leader Kamalpreet Bedi and other representatives from NHS Resolution in one of Hill...
1COR Public Law Seminar – Life, Liberty & Security - Sep 2017
Date: 11th September 2017 We will be tweeting using the hash tag: #1CORpublic Registration: 16:30pm onwards Programme: 17:00 - 17:50 Panel Discussion chaired by Mrs Justice Whipple. ...
Philip Havers QC and Shaheen Rahman QC appear in Supreme Court prisoner smoking ban appeal - Nov 2017
Philip Havers QC and Shaheen Rahman QC have appeared in the Supreme Court on behalf of the appellant in this landmark case regarding the application of the smoking ban in prisons. Philip Havers QC and...
Shaheen Rahman QC and Matthew Hill speak at the annual Justice Human Rights Law Conference - Oct 2017
This year Shaheen Rahman QC and Matthew Hill both spoke at the annual Justice Human Rights Law Conference on Friday 13 October, held at the London offices of Freshfields. Both were delighted to have...
The Times reports on Chambers extremism cases - Jun 2017
Frances Gibb has written in The Times (｣) about the number of cases being heard in the Family Division concerning extremism. The piece features quotations from Mr Justice Hayden in A Local Authority...
Martin Downs in new Radicalisation Judgment about protecting older children and vulnerable adults - Apr 2017
Mr Justice Hayden has just handed down a new Judgment concerning safeguarding those at risk of radicalisation: A Local Authority v Y [2017] EWHC 968 (Fam) (27 April 2017). The Judgment focuses on...
Marina Wheeler QC in Public Interest Immunity & Radicalisation case - Apr 2017
Marina Wheeler QC appeared for the Home Secretary in her successful application for public interest immunity in a Radicalisation Case. Mrs Justice Pauffley has just handed down Judgment. The case...
Oliver Sanders QC and Shaheen Rahman QC take Silk - Feb 2017
13th February 2017 was QC appointment day, and Oliver Sanders and Shaheen Rahman, accompanied by their families and Senior and First Junior Clerks Matthew Phipps and Andrew Tull, travelled to...
New QC Appointments Announced Oliver Sanders and Shaheen Rahman - Jan 2017
Two of our Members, Oliver Sanders and Shaheen Rahman, have been advised that they will be appointed Queen's Counsel on 13 February 2017. The full report, including press release and full appointment...
Philip Havers QC and Shaheen Rahman to appear in the Supreme Court in prisoner smoking case - Oct 2016
R(Black) v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] 1 WLR 3963, [2015] 4 ALL ER 790; [2016] 3 WLR 28: [2016] 3 All ER 30: (2016) 150 BMLR 145: Times, May 6, 2016. In this case Philip Havers QC and...
Shaheen Rahman acts for family in pill death case - Jul 2016
The Shropshire coroner has concluded that Charlotte Foster, 23, died of the untreated side effects of the combined oral contraceptive pill. She suffered a cardiac arrest at work and brain damage five...
Control order upheld following rehearing - May 2016
Angus McCullough QC and Shaheen Rahman were instructed as Special Advocates for GG in the long running case of Secretary of State for the Home Department v GG [2016] EWHC 1193 (Admin). Collins J held...
Philip Havers QC and Shaheen Rahman in Prison Smoking Appeal - Feb 2016
Philip Havers QC and Shaheen Rahman have appeared for the Respondent in the Court of Appeal in Black v SSHD, the prisoner smoking case. The Court considered whether Crown Immunity applied to...
Shaheen Rahman acting for the mother of woman hit by a train along with her 3 year old son - Apr 2015
Shaheen Rahman is acting for the mother of Donna Oettinger who tragically died along with her 3 year old son when she got onto railway tracks and was run down by a train. She had been treated for...
Shaheen Rahman wins ruling on smoking in jail and the status of Crown premises - Mar 2015
Shaheen Rahman won her case for prisoner, Paul Black, inmate at HMP Wymott in Lancashire, who says he suffers from a range of health problems made worse by second-hand smoke. The landmark ruling means...
Shaheen Rahman appeared as Special Advocate for a Claimant subject to a TPIM - Apr 2013
Shaheen Rahman has appeared as Special Advocate on behalf of a Claimant subject to a TPIM (Terrorist Prevention and Investigation Measures) in CF v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013]...
Members of 1COR acted in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust Public Inquiry - Feb 2013
