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Julian Shaw
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Julian graduated from Aberystwyth University College of Wales in 1982. Called to the Bar in 1984 he has been a member of St. Johns Buildings Chester (formerly White Friars Chambers) since 1985 when he completed his pupillage under Maurice Kay, (now Lord Justice Maurice Kay Kt.).
Julian is a County Court Recorder and Treasury Counsel.
His practise covers all aspects of Civil Law with a particular emphasis on the effects on farms and the farming community of divorce and separation.
He specialises in landlord and tenant work including agricultural holdings and tenancies.
He has been recognised in Chambers Legal 500 for the past 8-years and is recommended as a commercial specialist.
Julian also has wide experience of Inheritance Act disputes concerning farms and land as well as rights of way and other easement disputes.
His attention to detail and mastery of his brief as well as his personable manner with clients has earned him a strong reputation as one of the leading junior Barristers in the North West.
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Email: clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk
Telephone: 0161 214 1500
Family
Julian is a member of the Family Law Bar Association, and a regular speaker at seminars on various aspects of Family Law. His practise includes all manner of private as well as public law work and also covers all aspects of ancillary relief work. He regularly appears for Local Authorities and parents in "difficult" care proceedings.
Personal Injury
Julian has a very well established civil practice which was recognised in 2002 on his appointment as Treasury Counsel. He has a particularly broad civil practice covering personal injury work, boundary disputes, probate and inheritance actions and is particularly involved in clinical and professional negligence claims against, inter alia solicitors.
Julian accepts conditional fee work as well as direct professional access as a member of the Public Access Bar Association.
Crime
Julian specialises in fraud including VAT fraud trials and has been involved in high profile defence as well as prosecution cases from murder, through rape and indecent assault and offences of public disorder and violence. He appeared for the Crown in the Court of Appeal case of jury racial prejudice: R. v. Qureshi [2002] 1 Cr.App.R. 33 and is regularly instructed by the Shropshire Trading Standards Service to prosecute its cases in the Crown Court.