KINGS BENCH CHAMBERS - Key Persons
Bobby Shabbir has joined as a member of KBC, having taken a career break from law pursuing other interests. Other than his legal qualification he is also a qualified TEFL teacher.
He was called to the bar in 2001 and then cross qualified as a solicitor in 2006 taking various work from immigration/deportation to civil and contract law work. He spent many years practising immigration law as a solicitor and was also a partner in a law firm specialising in this field. Bobby is also qualified as a High Court advocate in Pakistan.
Not only has he gained invaluable experience in people management together with being a good listener, He is very understanding and empathetic towards those he represents. This comes with his experience first as a solicitor then as a partner in a law firm and as a solicitor-advocate.
Peter's civil experience encompass a broad range of civil matters in which he has acted for both Claimant's and Defendant's in matters of contract, personal injury, credit hire, torts, road traffic accidents, applying for and opposing injunctive relief and in property disputes between landlord and tenant and against trespassers.
Job Titles:
- Solicitor
- Department Head of Ashley Bean & Co
- Specialist
Corinne became a Solicitor in 2001, and achieved her Higher Rights in July 2006. She was Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 2016 after converting from being a Solicitor-Advocate.
Corinne has extensive experience acquired in the criminal field, particularly with regard to serious crime, both as a legal manager with CPS, and Department Head, in general practice. Additionally, she is well versed in other areas of law, including Civil and Family Law, Wills Probate, Conveyancing.
She has substantial advocacy experience, within Magistrates, Youth and Crown Courts, also Civil and Family Courts and has represented clients at Tribunals.
In the CPS, Corinne was a Legal Manager for several years, and her career with CPS spans over 25 years. Within this time, she became a Rape and Child Abuse Specialist Lawyer, providing charging advice to senior police, and was instrumental in developing an effective Rape Protocol, and Domestic Violence Protocol with her Criminal Partners. She personally delivering training to senior lawyers in this area. She was involved in a number of high profile media interested cases including overseeing the review and presentation of Gurdawar Singh Chima, who was convicted for Rape, and sentenced to 14 years in prison for repeated Rape of his wife over several years, after keeping her imprisoned in the garden. Corinne also has substantial experience providing charging advice, and preparing serious fraud, and general crime cases.
Corinne is a specialist lawyer in motoring, particularly fatal road collisions, and serious personal injury. Providing advice to officers in "Surgery" sessions, and has many years experience of personally conducting these fatal cases at Court to successful conclusions. She has acquired extensive experience prosecuting and defending all manner of motoring matters, at Magistrates and Crown Courts particularly on Appeal.
Job Titles:
- Member of Cobham Bus Museum and the Friends of the London Transport Museum
- Member of His Inn
- Secretary of the Old Westminster Citizens' Association
Marc is Secretary of the Old Westminster Citizens' Association and a Trustee of the Old Westminster Citizens' Jubilee Trust Fund, as well as formerly a Governor of Peterborough School, Fulham.
Marc's main passions beyond the Bar are vintage transport and choral music. Marc has been a member of Cobham Bus Museum and the Friends of the London Transport Museum for many years. He is also Parish Secretary of St. Andrew's Church, Fulham Fields as well as its Choir Librarian, having organised highly successful choir tours as far apart as Dublin and New York. In 2014 he was a founder member of the Bar Choral Society under the leadership of Tim Dutton, C.B.E., Q.C.
Neil Hinton has been a member of KBC since just after its formation. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1984, initially gaining experience of general practice in Kent before specialising in crime. He was a solicitor with a niche criminal firm in London where he had conduct of many serious cases, from white collar fraud to murder. During that time he became frustrated with the limits on his rights of audience as a solicitor. He therefore became one of the earliest ‘solicitor advocates' in 1995 gaining his right to appear in all criminal courts through exemption - due to the depth and breadth of his advocacy experience. After a family move to the West Country it was a short step from there to transferring to the Bar where a career in common law has followed.