Neelam Gomersall’s practice focuses on criminal defence, inquests and professional discipline. She is ranked as a “rising star” in the Legal 500 (2025).
Neelam has experience representing regulated professionals charged with criminal offences, with an eye to the regulatory consequences that may follow. She has acted on behalf of medical professionals, sports professionals, teachers, and police officers.
Neelam is instructed in matters of the utmost seriousness in the Crown Court involving violence, sexual offending and the supply of commercial quantities of drugs.
Her recent instructions include the representation of a Metropolitan Police officer charged with rape, the representation of a defendant charged with the murder of his 8-month-old son, and the representation of the first of four defendants charged with conspiracy to supply over twenty kilograms of cocaine across the East of England.
She has been instructed in matters involving serious dishonesty and complex fraud. As led junior, she represented one of eight defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud and associated immigration offences centered around a sham Bollywood film production company. The trial at Southwark Crown Court lasted four months and involved a high volume of documentary and banking evidence. As sole junior, she represented a defendant charged with several counts of fraud by false representation in a “Tinder Swindler” style romance fraud.
Neelam has international experience, having spent several months in the Turks and Caicos Islands prosecuting the former premier of TCI for offences of bribery and the associated laundering of millions of dollars in alleged bribes received from commercial land developers.
In the area of professional discipline, Neelam has acted on behalf of medical professionals charged with dishonesty and sexual misconduct. She has appeared in the High Court in an appeal against sanction.
Neelam is frequently instructed to represent medical professionals in inquests.
Year of Call 2017.
CPS External Advocates Panel – Grade 2; Government Legal Department Junior Junior; Bar of the Turks and Caicos Islands; Criminal Bar Association; Young Fraud Lawyers Association.
History BA (Hons.), King’s College London (2014); Graduate Diploma in Law, University of Law (2015); Bar Professional Training Course, BPP Law School (2017).