Shemuel Sheikh

Shem practises across all areas of administrative and public law, with a particular specialism in planning, local government, licensing and regulatory law. He acts for both developers and local authorities. He has acted in a range of public inquiries and hearings, judicial review proceedings, enforcement appeals and local authority prosecutions. He has experience in a variety of areas from planning applications and appeals (including nationally significant infrastructure projects, major applications, permitted development rights approvals, amendment applications, changes of use, discharge of conditions, s.106 agreements and listed buildings) to town and village green applications and development consent orders. With prior experience assisting NGOs he is also well placed and regularly acts in cases involving human rights matters, especially in relation to the exercise of local authority powers and governance including emergency powers and obtaining injunctions. Shem also regularly acts in licensing appeals, both for applicants and licensing authorities.

Shem is on the Attorney General’s Regional C Panel as Junior Counsel to the Crown, is direct access qualified and part of Advocate’s Pro-Bono Pledge. Before joining Chambers, Shem specialised in judicial review at master’s level.

The Planning and Environment Bar Association (PEBA)

The Constitutional and Administrative Bar Association (ALBA)

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Northern Circuit

Barrister Training Course

Distinction, BPP London Holborn

University College London

LLM Master of Laws – Distinction

University College London

LLB Law with Another Legal System (Hong Kong),

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple Ashworth Scholarship, Exhibition Award and Duke of Edinburgh Award

BPP Advocacy Scholarship

UCL Deans Scholarship

OUP-ICCA National Moot Competition Champion