Saima Haq is an Associate within the Professional Discipline team, based in Weightmans Manchester office.
Saima is Solicitor Advocate, and an Associate within our Regulatory and Professional Discipline team. She qualified in 2017, and has over a decade of legal experience, almost exclusively within the field that she currently practices.
From the outset of her career she has worked on high profile and complex cases, from her time as Paralegal at the GMC when she was asked to obtain all of the witness statements in the subsequent landmark Court of Appeal case GMC v Adeogba, through to her work as a Lead Investigator on the Hillsborough inquests for the Independent Office for Police Conduct. At the Royal College of Nursing she honed her defending skills, successfully representing nurses in Regulatory (NMC) and Disclosing and Barring Services matters. The latter for which she had a 100% success rate in resisting DBS Barring decisions.
She brings this wealth of experience into her current roles where she is passionate about and relishes the opportunity to defend primarily doctors and dentists in their respective regulatory cases, and in inquests.
Saima is a member of the Associate of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
In addition to her Professional Discipline expertise, Saima is pleased to assist the Firm in international matters.
Specifically, Saima is a correspondent for the Firm’s International Desk for Dubai and the UAE area. Saima is led by Jonathan Shankland (Head of International Private Wealth within the Firm) on this desk. If you require any legal assistance and support on matters pertaining to the UAE region, please feel free to contact Saima or Jonathan directly, and they will be pleased to assist you.
This is work is complemented by Saima being a member of the Law Society’s International Committee (Manchester branch), and also Legalink’s Women in Law - an international Practice Group for female lawyers.
Experience and notable cases:
• Operation Pathway - high profile counterterrorism investigation)
• GMC v Adeogba [2016] EWCA Civ 162 - landmark GMC Court of Appeal case
• Hillsborough - high profile investigation and inquests
Languages:
English (native)
French
Urdu
Turkish (basic)
Arabic (basic)