3PB

Personal injury; clinical negligence.

Sharan Sanghera is a specialist personal injury barrister with particular expertise in insurance fraud litigation. She regularly acts for insurers in complex dishonesty claims, including staged or exaggerated accidents, fabricated injuries, and coordinated fraud activity. She is frequently instructed on cases raising issues about the credibility, independence, and reliability of expert evidence, and is highly regarded for robustly challenging expert opinion where appropriate.

Sharan is also instructed in claims which are case-managed collectively due to operational fraud concerns, providing strategic oversight, procedural guidance, and tactical advice across linked claims.

Clients value Sharan for her commercially minded approach, ability to identify key weaknesses early, and practical, solution-focused advocacy. She is recognised for being approachable, efficient, and highly responsive, and is a trusted choice for insurers and individuals navigating complex and high-risk litigation.

Personal Injury

Fraud work

Sharan Sanghera has extensive trial experience in claims involving fraud, including layered and linked claims. She regularly acts for defendants in cases where additional key players may be involved, understanding that many disputes form part of a wider operational picture. Sharan works closely with instructing firms to develop practical strategies to combat coordinated dishonest claims.

She has particular expertise in defending casualty fraud claims and is known for her robust, assertive advocacy. She frequently cross-examines experts whose evidence is challenged on reliability or methodology, securing dismissals and findings in relation to the poor quality of expert reports.

She also has significant experience in defending claims alleging psychological injury, where she has successfully challenged the credibility and reliability of experts, leading to dismissals or the removal of specific elements of claims.

Sharan has acted in multiple trials in which findings of fundamental dishonesty (FD) have been made, resulting in the removal of QOCS protection and enforceable costs orders. Examples include:

• Dismissal of a claim with findings of FD made in the claimant’s absence, where the expert’s evidence did not withstand “the most superficial analysis.”

• Psychological injury element of a claim dismissed where the expert attending trial was found to be “an unsatisfactory witness.”

• Claims dismissed with findings of FD and consequential orders for the CHO to be brought into proceedings regarding costs.

• Multiple findings of FD against claimants involved in road traffic collisions, with enforceable costs orders secured.

Sharan is highly regarded for her strategic, commercially minded approach, and her ability to deliver decisive results in complex and high-stakes litigation.

Non-fraud work

Sharan represents parties in multi-track claims where injuries are permanent and life-changing. She enjoys being involved in a claim from the early stages of settling pleadings and advising on evidence through to trial.

Within the claimant work that she undertakes she has a particular interest in employer’s liability and occupier’s liability claims. Sharan has been successful in settling many claims involving complex loss of earnings claims on behalf of self-employed persons or claimants who were in partnership prior to injury.

More recently, Sharan has advised and assisted in the following claims:

• C injured while using angle grinder causing metal fragments to enter his eyes leaving him with corneal scarring and photophobia

• C suffered a Lisfranc fracture leaving her with ongoing permanent difficulties with walking and which affected her ability to manage her business. D denied liability and surveillance footage was obtained but the claim was ultimately settled favourably.

• C developed a PTSD when involved in a RTC in which a motorcyclist was fatally injured

• C, a cyclist was left with permanent symptoms when involved in an RTC with a car

• C was injured when, as a minor, he fell through the ceiling of a derelict building. The case was further complicated by reasons of capacity and pre-existing vulnerabilities.

• Clinical Negligence

Sharan Sanghera undertakes a variety of clinical negligence work. She acts for both claimants and defendants from inception of the claim to trial.

Sharan is often in instructed to undertake conferences with claimants and experts with a view to exploring prospects of success at the early stage of a claim. While understanding of client perspectives she is exceptionally well versed in cutting through the issues and imparting objective advice with care and diplomacy.

Recently Sharan has advised and assisted in the following claims:

For Claimants

• Acted for C in a claim in which D’s failure to diagnose bilateral fistula led to months of suffering, requirement for several invasive procedures and which left her with psychological symptoms.

• Advised C in a difficult claim in which the bowel was allegedly perforated during a hysterectomy.

• Several delayed diagnoses/wrong diagnoses claims causing protracted recovery.

For Defendants

• Advised D in a claim pleaded at over £1million in which it was alleged that there was a failure to diagnose and treat appendicitis and leaving C with permanent bowel symptoms.

• Advised the Health Board in a claim involving a prescribing error in which C was alleged to have developed consequent GI symptoms.

• Advised the Health Board in a claim in which it was alleged that there was a delay in referring the deceased claimant for radiotherapy.

Year of Call: 2009

Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu

Member of PIBA

Member of ARDL

BA (Hons) Jurisprudence Exeter College, University of Oxford

Bar Vocational Course, BPP College London

BVC,  BPP College London

Called 2009; Inner Temple

Legal advisor on the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Legal Panel

Sharan’s interests include film and good restaurants.