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Mr Sam Karim KC
Position
Sam’s main areas of practice are administrative law (including commercial judicial review) and human rights law, regulatory law, public procurement and state aid law, Court of Protection and mental health, arbitration (domestic and international commercial) and information law. He has been a member of the Attorney General’s regional panel of Treasury Counsel for almost a decade and has been constantly recommended as a leading junior. Sam is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is admitted as a practitioner in the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Court.
Career
LLM(Lond.), LLB(Hons), PG Dip Laws, MCIArb (Int. Arbitration) Call in 2002 (Grays Inn).
Kings Chambers: Head of Administrative & Public Law; Head of Recruitment
Memberships
Member of the Executive Committee of the Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
Northern Administrative Law Association (NALA), Acting Chair
Founding member and Chair of the Kings Community Care and Disability Rights Association
Education
LLB (Hons), LLM (Lond.), PG Dip Law, MCIArb (Intl. Arbitration)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > North Eastern Circuit > Administrative and public law (including civil liberties and human rights)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Sam Karim KC – Kings Chambers ‘Sam is an excellent advocate. He remains very calm under pressure and speaks very eloquently. He is extremely good at dealing with clients, always on hand to assist and very approachable.’
Regional Bar > North Eastern Circuit > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1The Court of Protection team at Kings Chambers represents a range of parties in matters, including the Official Solicitor, local authorities and NHS trusts. Property and affairs disputes – an area in which the ‘incredibly knowledgeable‘ Fay Collinson excels – are also prominent in the group’s caseload. In a recent highlight for the set, practice head Sam Karim KC appeared in Re A (Covert Medication: Closed Proceedings), thought to be the first case of its kind within the Court of Protection, where closed proceedings were used to order the administration of covert medication to a person deemed to lack capacity. Bolstering the team at the senior end, Helen Mulholland KC was appointed to silk in March 2023.