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.
Aliyah is a robust and persuasive trial advocate. She prides herself on working closely as a team with instructing solicitors, not just in group litigation, but in every case in which she is involved. Her focus is always on maximising the client’s prospects of success.
She is a contributing author of Asbestos: Law & Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition, 2022).
She is ranked by the legal directories as a leading junior in Personal Injury, Group, Industrial Disease and Travel: International Personal Injury. She was shortlisted for Personal Injury – Junior of the year by the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024.
She is first junior on one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2025: the Military Deafness Litigation.
Aliyah is well known for her cutting-edge work in the personal injury field.
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 including the family of a teenager involved in a go-karting accident and a mother killed in a hit-and-run accident.
Military Claims
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 also experienced in acting for members of the Armed Forces who have experienced sexual assault and harassment in service.
Industrial Disease
A key area of Aliyah’s practice is her industrial disease work. 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.
She has significant expertise in cases involving issues surrounding immunotherapy costs.
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.
Capitalising on her industrial disease and medical injury knowledge, Aliyah is fast becoming a go-to barrister in claims involving harmful environmental exposures, including ‘sick building syndrome’, a condition resulting from living in a defective new build home, and claims involving mould and asthma.
Product Liability
Aliyah’s experience in product liability litigation often involves medical treatment and devices. For example, she is currently instructed in the Calea Supply Crisis litigation. She also works on claims arising from clinical trials. She is an authority on product liability claims involving asbestos exposure having been involved in a group of ground-breaking claims against a major asbestos manufacturer.
Aliyah is well known for her work on group litigation claims and has been involved in some of the largest group actions ever brought in the UK:
She has previously been instructed in a number of cross-border group claims, including 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. She was also instructed in The Bodo Community v The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria in a claim brought by a fishing community for extensive environmental damage caused by an oil spill in the Niger Delta.
Aliyah’s personal injury practice frequently involves a cross-border element and she is specifically adept at high-value cross-border personal injury cases. These cases frequently involve serious personal injury and private international law and so combine some of the key elements of Aliyah’s practice. Her advice is often sought concerning jurisdiction or the conflict of laws. She also regularly acts in aviation law and maritime law claims.
Her international injury experience includes:
Cross-border group claims
She is currently instructed in a group claim brought by South African claimants exposed to asbestos by the mining operations of a UK based corporate group. She is also instructed by a group of military personnel exposed to asbestos in the course of a NATO training exercise in Latvia.
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