Imran Shafi KC
Defending the most serious criminal allegations.
King’s Counsel defending the most serious criminal allegations in the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal. You can instruct him through a solicitor, or directly under Public Access without one.
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King’s Counsel
Appointed 2021
Recorder of the Crown Court
Appointed 2020
Called to the Bar
1996, Lincoln’s Inn
Public Access
May be instructed directly
Bar Standards Board
Regulated, and on the public register
Areas of practice
- Pre-charge advice
Advice and representations before any charging decision is made, while the case can still be stopped.
- Murder and homicide
Murder, manslaughter and joint enterprise.
- Fraud and financial crime
Serious and complex fraud, bribery and corruption, and investigations brought by the Serious Fraud Office.
- Drug offences
Conspiracy to supply and importation, including cases built on encrypted-phone evidence and its admissibility.
- Serious violence
Attempted murder, wounding with intent, violent disorder and multi-defendant trials.
- Appeals
Appeals against conviction and sentence in the Court of Appeal, and references from the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Selected outcomes
Operation Cantus
Acquitted of murder · 2023
Defendant admitted stabbing deceased in the heart and liver in front of five witnesses. Acquitted of murder.
Operation Firestorm
Manslaughter, not murder · 2023
Gang attack in which victim fatally stabbed in the streets of Preston. Defendant acquitted of murder and convicted of the lesser alternative of manslaughter.
Operation Perasilk
Manslaughter, not murder · 2023
Multi-defendant stabbing and robbing of drug dealer. Client acquitted of murder and convicted of the lesser alternative of manslaughter.
Operation Dumore
Acquitted of murder and attempted murder · 2022
Successfully argued loss of control, following a three-week trial defendant acquitted of murder and attempted murder. Defendant had attended the home of the victims and repeatedly struck both in the head with an axe killing one and causing devastating injuries to the other.
Operation Legato
Conviction overturned on appeal · 2022
Stabbing of 16 year-old Rhamero West. Client convicted of murder and subsequently conviction successfully overturned at the Court of Appeal.
R v SJ
Non-custodial sentence · 2022
Client charged with attempted murder. Pleaded guilty to section 18 GBH with intent. Non-custodial sentence secured.
Operation Clumber
Not guilty · 2020
Young man accused of murder by stabbing a rival found not guilty following a successful case of self-defence.
Operation Flyberry
Conspiracy to murder dropped · 2019
Conspiracy to murder by shooting. Persistence and a forensic analysis of the unused material led directly to the prosecution dropping the count of conspiracy to murder.
Operation Yale
Not guilty · 2019
Nine defendant murder. Gangland shooting. Defendant found not guilty following a two-month trial.
Operation Tundra
Manslaughter, not murder · 2011
Murder with alleged homophobic murder. Successfully secured manslaughter conviction following a four-week trial.
From the murder and homicide record, the category he has confirmed for publication. Not all of the cases Imran Shafi KC has been involved in are set out on this site, for various reasons including confidentiality.
Silk since 2021, called to the Bar in 1996 at Lincoln’s Inn, and regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
Two ways to instruct Imran
Through a solicitor
How most of his work arrives. The solicitor sends the brief to his PA, conducts the litigation and handles the paperwork, and he does the advocacy and the law.
Directly, without a solicitor
Public Access. You instruct him yourself, with no solicitor and no second set of fees. He is not authorised to conduct litigation, so the filing and the correspondence stay with you, and he will say at the outset if a case is one that needs a solicitor.
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Locations
Manchester
Exchange Chambers
5th Floor201 DeansgateManchester M3 3NWMember. His principal base.
Liverpool
Exchange Chambers
One Derby SquareLiverpool L2 9XXMember
Leeds
Exchange Chambers
Oxford HouseOxford RowLeeds LS1 3BEMember
Birmingham
Citadel Chambers
190 Corporation StreetBirmingham B4 6QDDoor tenant
Dubai
PB Global Tax
Suite 1306, Al Shafar Tower 1Barsha HeightsDubai UAEAssociate. Tax advisory, not criminal work.