Bilal joined JMW in December 2023 as a Partner in the Commercial Litigation Team. Bilal's core area is Insurance litigation having practiced insurance and commercial litigation for some 25 years. His practice area covers catastrophic and complex high value complex disputes to include catastrophic injury, financial losses, financial services, insurance policy disputes, policy wording, London Market, acting for Insurers, Reinsurers, brokers, corporates, HNWI and policy holders. He has experience of group actions and has also advised organisations on insurance management, risk and policy wording.
He is an industry recognised leading sports insurance lawyer having advised Insurers, Brokers and policy holder Individual professional sports athletes, race drivers, intermediaries, as well as sport’s National Governing Bodies, sports clubs, and teams across Football, Rugby, Golf, Bloodstock and Motorsport in which he has a particular interest. A lead lawyer on concussion in sports, he has good relations with a numbers of sports governing bodies.
His experience covers civil litigation, Insurance Litigation, Policy Disputes, Arbitration to include ARIAS Arbitration, Mediation and Regulatory advice. Bilal has cross boarder experience of investigations and Arbitration having had a number of disputes across the Channel Islands, Europe, the Middle East and Cambodia. His experience covers contentious and non-contentious advice.
Bilal Legal 500 client testimonial describe him as “…an innovative and impressive leader of the team.”, “…a forward-thinking team led by Bilal Mirza.”
Notable Cases
- Ure v Ure – Landmark multimillion pound settlement - First UK General Insurer case to settle on periodical payments order (PPO) ASHE 6115.
- Russell v Smith - established contributory negligence against a 10-year-old minor in an RTA.
- Insurance catastrophic & financial loss claims – Various complex multimillion pounds claims acting for Corporates, Policy Holders, Insurers and Reinsurers.
- Commercial litigation, substantial dispute against energy supplies on behalf of an off shore £60m property investment company.
- Appointed lead lawyer for National Governing Body in Rugby concussion test litigation.
- Advised The FA and Brokers on establishing the National Grass Roots Insurance Scheme (NIGS)
- Football – various sports insurance, contractual and injury disputes to include advising EFL Football clubs in relation to their liabilities via umbrella insurance policy.
- Rugby – various career ending insurance claims involving Professional International and Elite players.
- Advised a Foreign Sovereign fund client on their sports insurance and litigation risk and management requirements.
- Motorsport – multi-million-pound insurance policy dispute against international race team and world championship car and driver in Dakar Rally event. Jurisdiction investigations across UAE and England.
- Motorsports – Advising National Governing Body, Race Track owners and Drivers in relation to “on track” and “off track ” incidents, Regulatory Advise, contractual and insurance disputes.
Bilal has raced Karts since he was 15 and has also run his own Kart Racing Team having raced at various events. He enjoys motorsports and classic cars and enjoys sailing and is a qualified Day skipper