Lubna Shuja
Solicitor, Commercial & Family Mediator
- 2005 CEDR Accredited Mediator
- 18 years mediation experience
- Solicitor, Commercial & Family Mediator, former Vice President of the Law Society of England & Wales. Currently the President.
- Specialisms, property, boundary, directors, probate, contract, English, Punjabi & Urdu speaker
Solicitor
- General Civil Litigation
- Personal Injury
- Divorce and Financial Orders
- Boundary Disputes (one of which led to an appeal in the Court of Appeal)
- Professional Negligence Claims
- Solicitors Disciplinary Cases
- Employment Law
- Commercial and Contractual Disputes
- Residential Property
- Landlord and Tenant Litigation
- Wills and Probate
- Large Debt Actions
Mediation experience includes:
- Property/boundary dispute between neighbors involving rights of way, obstruction / use of a joint access road and adjoining footpath crossing over one of the neighbours land. Amount involved was £35,000 plus costs.
- Unlawful discrimination dispute between a large University, its Student Union body and a group of 8 students. The students were claiming unlawful discrimination on the grounds of race/religion and victimisation by the University and the Students Union. Amount involved was £80,000 plus costs.
- Commercial dispute between directors of a company involving share transfer agreements, payments that had not been agreed, directors loans, breach of terms of directors agreement and other issues. Amount involved was £50,000 plus costs
- Probate disputes between siblings over inheritance and contents of a Will. Amounts involved were from £60,000 to £800,000 plus costs
- Divorce and ancillary relief claim concerning the assets of the marriage. Amount involved was £500,000 plus costs
Professional qualifications
- Practising Solicitor since 1992
- Mediator accredited with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) since
- Nov 2005
- Member of Association of Midlands Mediators (AMM)
- Previously Member of Northern Association of Mediators
- Member of the Law Societys Personal Injury Panel for over 10 years
- Member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) for over 8 years
- Member of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) for over 14 years
- Member of the Law Societys Solicitors Sole Practitioners Group since 2006
- Mediation panel member of Effective Dispute Solutions Limited
