Marshal Ahluwalia

Moved to Vancouver with family in October 2026. Available for immediate start in Vancouver. Flexible, within or outside legal sector. Solicitor in England and Wales offering in-house legal support to NHS Trusts.

Experience includes, representing Trusts at inquests, providing medico legal advice to healthcare professionals, prosecuting and defending personal injury and clinical negligence claims and defending criminal regulatory health and safety prosecutions. Driving license- class 5 BC license Marital status- Married Passport – British Citizen with Canadian open work permit until 2029 (PR applied)

Senior Associate Solicitor - Browne Jacobson - Manchester, UK

(2024-04 - 2026-10)

• Managing and supervising a portfolio of inquest matters, including undertaking initial investigations.
• Identifying and escalating complex matters with reputational risk in order to ensure prompt instruction of external solicitors on inquest matters when required; providing regular reporting to healthcare clients on matters within their portfolio.
• Undertaking ad hoc tasks to progress matters in a timely and efficient way, including drafting substantive advice to clients, drafting pleadings, witness statements and other legal documents, attending inquests or other court hearings, and representing clients in negotiations and mediations.
• Undertaking legal research and providing legal advice to clients on a range of healthcare matters, including the implications of new statutes, regulations, directives and case law.
• Providing secondment support to the firm's healthcare clients to assist with resource and workload challenges, either remotely or in person.
• Supervising junior members of the team and delegating tasks to more junior members, providing guidance and support as needed.

Solicitor - Medical Protection Society (MPS) - Leeds, UK

(2016-05 - 2024-04)

• MPS - Leeds - May 2020 to April 2024 Solicitor Medical Case Manager
• Operating a medico-legal advice telephone helpline for MPS members world-wide, handling in excess of 1,728 member queries over the course of this role.
• Receiving and advising on 'cold' calls from MPS members on a wide range of medico-legal queries, including adverse incidents, confidentiality, complaints in primary and secondary care, consent, data protection, disclosure of medical records, coroners' inquests, defamation, disciplinary matters, GMC queries, raising concerns, social media, whistleblowing and writing reports.
• Over the window of 4 years (2020-2024), managing a caseload of approximately 710 case files as case manager responsible for handling medical case management files, including inquest work
• Managing a case load comprising approximately 40% inquest cases, 30% complaint cases (primary and secondary care, including private consultant complaints), and 30% medico-legal advice cases.
• Working collaboratively with MPS in-house doctors when dealing with medical case management files.
• MPS Leeds - May 2016 to May 2020 Solicitor Medical Claims Manager
• Responsible for a direct portfolio of 100 defendant clinical negligence claim files in accordance with established in-house process rules.
• Applying investigative skills and case strategy to evaluate the facts, law, apportionment issues, quantum and prospective costs in each matter.

Director – Regulatory and Compliance - Walker Morris LLP - Leeds, UK

(2014-02 - 2016-04)

• Advising organisations with regard to health and safety and data protection policies, procedures, auditing systems, risk assessments, supervision and training.
• Advising organisations on compliance issues covering health and safety policies, data protection policies and anti-bribery and corruption policies, protocols, risk assessments, supervision, training and accident record keeping.
• Advising and representing clients at inquests, including attending multi-day jury inquests and representing a national care home client at inquests before senior coroners on matters involving complex issues such as capacity, dementia and supervision policies.
• Advising and arranging representation for clients facing defendant criminal health and safety prosecutions in the Crown Court, including matters arising from fire safety and dietary care failures.

Director – Insurance Litigation (Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence) - Walker Morris LLP - UK

(2011-05 - 2014-02)

• Responsible for staffing issues within the non-ULR (uninsured loss recovery) team, including hiring, salaries, management, supervision, budgets, workloads, resources, complaints and disciplinary matters.
• Conducting risk assessments on whether claims should proceed to trial, liaising with service providers and organising individual and team training needs.
• Undertaking advocacy for a significant number of interlocutory hearings and applications on own cases relating to personal injury and clinical negligence claims.

Associate Solicitor – Insurance Litigation (Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence) - Walker Morris LLP - UK

(2002-05 - 2011-04)

• Handling personal injury and clinical negligence matters.
• Managing staffing issues including supervision, budgets, workloads, resources and complaints within the litigation team.
• Undertaking advocacy at interlocutory hearings and applications in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.
• Holding Higher Rights of Audience (civil proceedings), obtained in May 2005.

Assistant Solicitor – Insurance Litigation - Walker Morris LLP - UK

(1999-03 - 2002-04)

• Defending National Health Service Litigation Authority claims.
• Handling claimant personal injury and claimant clinical negligence matters.
• Undertaking ad hoc commercial litigation.

Associate Solicitor - T I Clough - Bradford, UK

(1997 - 1999-03)

• Handling personal injuries, clinical negligence, partnership disputes, professional negligence, property damage, probate disputes, conflict of interests, fraudulent sale of property and wrongful interference with goods matters.

LLM - International Arbitration - Queen Mary University (2018 - 2020)

LLB (hons) - University of Bedfordshire (1991 - 1994)

Nine GCSEs and three ‘Advance’ Levels - Chemistry, Biology and Physics