Deputy Senior Clerk
Practice Manager
Assistant Practice Manager
Bajul is an experienced junior who has a commercial and chancery practice specialising in aviation, commercial litigation, civil fraud, company and insolvency disputes, and trusts and probate disputes.
The magnitude of the cases that he works in means that he has a truly international practice acting on disputes centred across the globe, clients comment that “Bajul makes light work of sophisticated, cross-jurisdictional litigation. Clients love the way he translates complex legal issues into sage, commercial advice”. He has had particular experience of disputes arising from the BVI, Anguilla, Cayman, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.
Bajul has an excellent reputation, strong market profile and an impressive and loyal client base. Praised for his “very measured advocacy style” clients state that “with Bajul, you get silk-level advocacy, drafting and skills”.
Highly commended for his all-round ability as an advocate clients state “Barristers need to be good thinkers and good talkers, and Bajul has both of these qualities in spades. He’s got tremendous intellectual capacity and encyclopaedic knowledge of cases and of the law”.
Arbitration has been involved in high profile and complex arbitrations, both domestic and international, particularly in the field of aviation, shareholder and partnership disputes, and civil fraud disputes. He has particular experience of LCIA, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations
His experience includes:
‘Bajul is the standout junior at the Aviation Bar; he’s got that star quality. He is a really good advocate..’ Chambers and Partners
Bajul is an aviation specialist who enjoys a busy practice providing advice and advocacy in complex international commercial aviation disputes. He is regularly instructed on engineering-heavy negligence, product liability claims, and lease liability claims and is experienced in cases concerning insolvency, contractual and ownership disputes.
Recommended for a considerable time by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners in both aviation and Travel: Regulatory & Commercial, clients comment the legal directories comment that ‘Bajul is intelligent with a calm demeanour – he is very responsive and good to deal with on every level – his advocacy and attention to detail in court are impressive.’
Bajul’s aviation experience includes:
Bajul is a very experienced commercial junior who is experienced in allegations of fraud, fraudulent transferring of assets, misappropriation. Recommended by Legal 500 clients praise him as ‘a cogent advocate with a brilliant mind.’
His recent experience includes:
Bajul has extensive experience in commercial litigation both in the Commercial Court and in the Chancery Division as well as in arbitration. Ranked in both leading legal directories clients state “Bajul is unbelievably clever. He guides the court slowly and carefully to the right answer.”
Bajul’s commercial litigation experience includes:
Bajul has extensive experience of company and partnership disputes. His company law practice includes specialist advisory work as well as litigation both domestically and internationally. He regularly advises on shareholder and partnership issues and has experience of matters relating to directors’ duties and indemnities, shareholders disputes, share sales, pre-emption rights, and reduction of share capital.
Bajul’s company experience includes:
Bajul’s practice includes administration petitions, liquidations, bankruptcies, IVAs, disputes involving securities. He has experience of the Madoff insolvency proceedings in the BVI, foreign insolvencies and their impact on domestic proceedings, and airline insolvencies. His recent experience includes:
Bajul has experience in a number of pension related matters. His experience includes:
Regularly assisting trustees and high net worth individuals on a wide range of matters, Bajul’s practice involves both specialist advocacy and advisory work on matters such as the appointment and removal of trustees; trustees costs and expenses; Beddoes applications; claims for constructive trusts, tracing, dishonest assistance and knowing receipt and probate disputes.
Bajul is recommended in this area by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, clients state “Bajul has great commercial instinct and is a very astute judge of the merits and weaknesses of cases. He is a go-to barrister.”.
Bajul’s recent experience includes:
Bajul has a thriving offshore practice with experience of company, commercial, insolvency and trusts disputes in a number of jurisdictions including the BVI, Cayman, the DIFC, Gibraltar and Guernsey. Recommended in the legal directories, clients’ comment “Bajul’s knowledge of DIFC law is impressive” and “Bajul is absolutely charming and he charms judges. He is very technical, measured and commercial”.
Aviation
Chambers & Partners
‘Absolutely outstanding at drafting points and someone who gets to grips with the full details of the claim with incredible speed. He’s very effective and also excellent with clients.’ (2026)
‘Bajul is a highly experienced and well-respected advocate.’ (2026)
‘Bajul is a superb barrister who is way ahead of almost everyone else. He has it all, as he’s both a good advocate and a terrific black-letter lawyer.’ (2026)
‘Bajul Shah is an experienced junior whose strong market profile is built out of his broad experience in the aviation sphere. He is regularly instructed to handle cases related to leasing, contractual and insolvency disputes. An impressive client roster includes bodies from across the spectrum of the industry, including lessors, lessees and airlines.’ ‘Barristers need to be good thinkers and good talkers, and Bajul has both of these qualities in spades. He’s got tremendous intellectual capacity and encyclopaedic knowledge of cases and of the law.’ ‘Bajul makes light work of sophisticated, cross-jurisdictional litigation. Clients love the way he translates complex legal issues into sage, commercial advice.’ (2025)
‘Bajul is a highly competent and sensible barrister with excellent technical knowledge and an easy, calm style.’ ‘He is excellent, very experienced and his preparation is very through. He is very strong on aviation matters.” “He is able to consider huge amounts of technical and legal information and provide advice not just on the legal position, but also on the commercial issues.’ (2023)
‘Bajul is one of the leading juniors at the Bar, with great knowledge of aviation. He has a calming presence that sets the courtroom at ease and makes him utterly credible and compelling.’ (2022)
‘A committed aviation lawyer.’ ‘Very thorough, detailed and impressive pleadings.’ (2021)
Legal 500
‘Bajul is the complete barrister. An extensive knowledge of the aviation industry and technical aspects of all cases. His advocacy is first-rate. He is fearless and never reluctant to tell others where they are going wrong.’ (2026)
Ranked as a Leading Junior (2023)
‘A very strong, sensible and calm advocate. He is a pleasure to deal with and always very clear in his advice.’ (2022)
Chancery: Commercial
Chambers & Partners
‘Bajul Shah is clearly knowledgeable on difficult law and procedure. He provides helpful, on-point robust opinions.’ (2026)
‘Bajul really knows his stuff. Gently spoken and not a crash-bang advocate, he has his own hugely effective style. He’s a wonderful member of the team.’ (2026)
‘Bajul Shah is not afraid to provide confident views of the merits of the case – his analysis of matters is always very good.’ (2026)
‘Bajul is unbelievably clever. He guides the court slowly and carefully to the right answer.’ ‘Bajul’s knowledge of DIFC law is impressive.’ (2025)
‘Bajul is very helpful approachable and responsive, and he provides very clear and cogent advice.” “He is technically superb.’ (2023)
‘An extremely pleasant person to work with, he is very calm and considered, thorough, clear and concise. He takes a very logical approach to things.’ (2022 – UK and Global)
‘Hugely impressive with a brain the size of the moon, but he’s still very approachable, practical and very commercial. He’s bright, very straightforward and a great barrister.’ (2021 – UK and Global)
Chancery: Traditional
Chambers & Partners
‘Bajul is the most calming influence and incredibly persuasive. He uses his many years of experience to just disperse that knowledge and be incredibly influential. He is loved by judges.’ (2026)
‘Bajul is very collegiate and goes above and beyond to provide assistance where he can. He misses absolutely nothing, he is very calm and measured and he is so lovely to deal with as well.’ (2026)
‘Bajul Shah is an excellent lawyer. He is very client-friendly, careful, commercial and able to deal with the most complex disputes.” (2026)
‘Bajul Shah is extremely good at chancery work. He really has that knowledge of overlapping areas of fraud along with offshore issues.’ (2026)
‘He is extremely good at chancery work, he really has that knowledge of overlapping areas of fraud along with offshore issues. He has his own style and is a wonderful member of a team.’ ‘He is the most calming influence and incredibly persuasive. He uses his many years of experience to just disperse that knowledge and be incredibly influential. He is loved by judges.’ ‘Bajul Shah is an excellent lawyer. He is very client-friendly, careful and commercial and able to deal with the most complex disputes.’ ‘He is very collegiate and goes above and beyond to provide assistance where he can. He misses absolutely nothing, is very calm and measured and so lovely to deal with as well.’ (2025 – High Net Worth)
‘Bajul Shah maintains an excellent reputation at the Traditional Chancery Bar, regularly assisting trustees and high net worth individuals on a wide range of matters. He is noted for his handling of offshore and cross-border matters.’ ‘He’s personable and inspires confidence.’ ‘Bajul is absolutely charming and wins over judges. As an advocate he is able to make the judge see what he wants them to see. He is very technical, measured and commercial.’ (2025)
‘He is a lovely guy, he’s a really clever man. Sharp as a tack and knows chancery stuff backwards. He’s a very effective advocate, a softly spoken individual but he gives off an endless air of reason.’ (2023)
‘He is very easy to work with,’ ‘client-friendly, very bright and excellent at distilling complex legal problems.’ ‘He is a lovely guy, he is a really clever man. Sharp as a tack and knows chancery stuff backwards. He is a very effective advocate and a softly spoken individual but he gives off an endless air of reason.’ (2022 – High Net Worth)
‘He’s exceptional. He’s really bright, incredibly easy to work with and so patient and tolerant of people who are less intelligent than him, which is most of us.’ (2022)
‘He’s exceptional,’ ‘he’s one of my favourite juniors, perhaps my favourite junior to work with. He’s really bright, incredibly easy to work with and so patient and tolerant of people who are less intelligent than him, which is most of us.’ ‘A tour de force on complex drafting.’ (2021 – High Net Worth)
‘Really good at trusts with an offshore element and financial services work. He’s an extremely bright lawyer, who just gives you immediate confidence that he understands the issues.’ (2021)
Offshore
Chambers & Partners
‘He is the most calming influence; judges lap it up and he is just chilled and relaxed.’ (2026)
‘Bajul Shah has an enviable offshore practice and handles cases in the BVI, the DIFC and the Channel Islands. He offers expertise in a broad range of commercial chancery areas, including insolvency, trusts, probate and civil fraud, and is frequently called upon by liquidators and trustees.’ ‘Bajul is absolutely charming and he charms judges. He is very technical, measured and commercial.’ ‘He is such a safe pair of hands. Bajul is personable and inspires confidence.’ (2025)
‘Bajul Shah has encyclopedic intelligence and he will see through the cracks to tell you the route you should be taking. He is a very soothing and eloquent advocate and judges just love him.’ ‘He is a superb barrister, who always gets things done and is always on top of the detail.’ (2023)
‘He’s really bright, incredibly easy to work with and so patient.’ ‘He’s amazing, capable and delightful to work with. His legal brain has no limits and he’s very good at delivering practical advice.’ (2022 – UK and Global)
‘Incredibly personable and exceedingly bright.’ ‘He is supremely talented.’ (2021 – UK and Global)
The Legal 500
‘Calm, collected and methodical. Judges love his approach, as he tells it as it is.’ (2024)
Ranked as a Leading Junior (2023)
‘Clearly pushing at the door to becoming a silk and accordingly punches above his years when it comes to a lot of offshore advocacy.’ (2022)
‘An incredibly talented senior junior.’ (2021)
Travel: Regulatory & Commercial
Chambers & Partners
‘He is brilliant, and his performance is so consistent.’ (2026)
‘He is a super-quality senior junior, giving silk-level advice.’ (2026)
‘Bajul has great attention to detail, and he is really good on his feet. He’s got a very good grasp of very complex situations, and he’s really accessible to all members of our team.’ (2026)
‘Bajul Shah of XXIV Old Buildings undertakes commercial disputes in the aviation industry, and has substantial aircraft leasing and maintenance knowledge. He also advises on product liability and potential engineering negligence issues.’ ‘He is a reliable pair of hands and is unflappable under the pressures of time and complexity.’ ‘With Bajul, you get silk-level advocacy, drafting and skills.’ (2025)
‘Bajul is outstanding. He is an excellent advocate and is very personable.’ (2023)
‘A very bright and commercial barrister.’ (2022)
‘An impressive barrister who adapts quickly to his client’s needs.’ (2021)
Commercial Litigation
Legal 500
‘Bajul is the complete barrister. His advocacy is first rate’ (2026)
‘Hardworking and thorough. His written work is excellent.’ (2023)
‘Very bright, he possesses a deep understanding of the law. A very effective advocate with a gentle style.’ (2022)
‘Bajul stands out for the clarity of his thought – he is fantastic at seeing the wood from the trees and has an uncanny ability to pick out the issues that really matter.’ (2021)
Fraud: Civil
Legal 500
Ranked as a leading junior. (2026)
‘Good and detailed analysis; careful drafting; controlled, thorough and careful presentation to judges. Easy to work with.’ (2023)
‘A very effective advocate with a gentle style.’ (2022)
‘He is supremely calm, both on his feet and in conference with clients – nothing perturbs him, and there are very few barristers who respond better when up against the ropes.’ (2021)
Private Client: Trusts & Probate
Legal 500
Ranked as a leading junior. (2026)
‘Bajul is an absolute anchor in our team. He is solid, thorough and utterly dependable.’ (2026)
‘Bajul is calm, collected and incredibly clever. Judge’s like listening to him and clients respect him as an expert.’ (2023)
‘Bajul is a very calm and engaging advocate. He is very likeable in court and unassuming. He is tactically highly astute and very sensitive to the tribunal. He is easy to work with.’ (2022)
‘Very knowledgeable.’ (2021)
‘A very capable barrister who has real expertise in the aviation sector; he takes a commercial and pragmatic approach and is a very good team-player’. ‘A very thoughtful and considered lawyer, blessed with deep knowledge of the law’. ‘Has a deep knowledge of the area and will often pick up points others miss or overlook.”Extremely congenial to work with and he’s a very smooth advocate’. (2020)
‘He is calm, persuasive and an effective advocate.’ ‘He’s a very good senior junior – really good on international, British Virgin Islands and Cayman trust issues’. ‘Highly responsive, adapts to the client’s needs, and provides succinct, commercial and proportionate advice’.’He is highly responsive and provides succinct and commercial advice.”He is not afraid of rolling his sleeves up and getting his hands dirty’. ‘Really well considered and careful as a lawyer.’ ‘It’s a very good quality of written work and very good quality of analysis. ‘He’ll respond to me quickly and always reliably. He is a very pleasant man to deal with’. ‘He’s really good at trusts with an offshore element, and financial services as well. He’s an extremely bright lawyer, one who just gives you immediate confidence that he understands the issues.’ (2020)
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Offshore
‘Bajul Shah is a calm, persuasive and effective advocate.’ (2026)
‘Bajul Shah has been involved in drafting a number of complex defences for us and has been really good. He shows great attention to detail and is really good on his feet. We value his collaboration.’ (2026)
Legal 500
Ranked as a leading junior. (2026)
