Miriam Shalom

Called 2003

MA (Oxon)
LLM (University College London)

Main Areas of Practice

Trusts of land
Landlord and Tenant
Employment
Contract

Professional Memberships

ELA
Member of the New York Bar

Profile

Miriam is a busy civil practitioner whose areas of practice include:  property and housing, employment, contract, professional negligence and probate. She regularly appears in the High Court, county courts and tribunals.

Miriam has taught Contract law at Kings College London and was a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal where she gained experience in a broad range of civil appeal.

Trusts of Land

Having acted as second junior in the leading case of Stack v Dowden Miriam has represented parties and drafted pleadings in numerous cases concerning TLATA, occupation rent and equitable accounting. She has given several seminars on this area.

Landlord and Tenant

Miriam acts for both landlords and tenants in commercial and residential property matters including claims for possession, rights to succeed relief from forfeiture and damages for disrepair. She has experience of acting for local authorities as well as private clients. Miriam has given seminars on this area.

Employment

Miriam has acted for Claimants and Respondents in cases involving unfair dismissal, discrimination failure to pay minimum wage, unlawful deductions and wrongful dismissal.

Contract

As well as having taught at undergraduate level on this area of law Miriam has advised drafted proceedings and acted for clients in numerous cases involving aspects of contract law.

Notable Cases

Some of the cases Miriam has been involved in practice and while as a judicial assistant at the Court of Appeal and include:

Stack v Dowden (House of Lords) [2007] 2 AC 432
EB v BA (Court of Appeal) [2006] IRLR 471
Jackson Grundy Estate Agents v Hall UKEAT/0423/09/CEA
GMC v Meadow (Court of Appeal) [2007] 2 WLR 286
Martin Dye v Martin Dye (Court of Appeal) [2007] 2 WLR 286
CG v CW (Court of Appeal) [2006] EWCA Civ 372

Lectures

Miriam has lectured both for chambers and external organisations on Employment Law, Landlord and Tenant, Trusts of Land and Civil Procedure.

Additional Professional Information

Middle Temple Astbury Scholarship 2001
Winner of Oxford University Law Society Mooting Competition 2000

Miriam is a qualified Public Access barrister.

If you would like any further information regarding Miriam Shalom's practice, please contact her clerks or call +44 (0)20 7405 6114.