Deesha Shah

Legal Assistant

About Deesha Shah

Deesha is a Legal Assistant in the Community Care team who joined Invicta Law in April 2021, having graduated from the University of Law with a Master of Law in Professional Legal Practice in 2018.

She previously worked at a firm with a commercial and litigation bias as well as at a London Local Authority for 2 years as a Childcare and Data Protection Paralegal on a public inquiry.

Deesha has jointly worked on various asylum matters including assisting in defending pre-action and judicial review challenges to local authority decisions, instructing counsel in High Court and Upper Tribunal hearings and providing proactive legal assistance to the team.

Deesha has case held a number of age assessment disputes from completing quality assurance, to responding to pre-action letters and defending claims issued at the Administrative Court and Upper Tribunal. Deesha has also assisted fee earners in successfully defending a number of age assessment challenges, including AB v KCC (JR/1947/2020); MM v KCC (CO/4214/2021); MA v KCC (JR/1053/2021) and LYB v KCC (JR/491/2021).

Areas of expertise

  • Asylum Law
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Client testimonials

“Kent County Council’s 18+ service is supported by the Invicta Law asylum team providing impeccable legal advice in assisting our service to support asylum seeking care leavers in Kent.”
Leaving Care Service - Kent County Council
“The Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking (UAS) Children’s Service is grateful for the support your team provides in defending its age assessments and responding to UAS child-related legal matters. I and the Service look forward to working with you in 2024-25.’ ”
UAS Children’s Service - Kent County Council
“South East Strategic Migration Partnership (SESPM) have worked successfully with Invicta Law over a number of years and their support, advice and training has been a key element to our work in this field. They have offered value for money training which has received extremely high levels of positive feedback from participating local authorities in the South East. Our experience is that the advice and training, especially related to Age Assessments and undertaking Human Rights Assessments, has been particularly helpful for local authorities here. ”
South East Strategic Migration Partnership
“The service so far has very good feedback for both of your case holders assisting. We thank you again for your supplemental service to Lambeth ASC at this very busy time for our in-house legal team.”
Community Care - London Borough of Lambeth
“The services we have had from Invicta Law have been excellent, both from the legal discussions but also the support we have received to increase my staff’s knowledge of the age assessment process. There have been times during some of our most challenging periods when I have communicated with members of your team at weekends and out of office hours, and the colleagues we have worked with have gone above and beyond in helping us in Torbay.”
Children's Services - Torbay Council
“I am writing in praise of your support. As someone in the firing line of an ultra-aggressive legal team for the first time in my life, this was a traumatic and, at times, upsetting process. You were at my side, dispensing wise and calming counsel throughout. You have been readily available when crises occurred, have been a wonderful listener and, in the end, we reached an outcome that was highly satisfactory for our school and its pupils. I cannot speak highly enough of the way that you handled this case, and I thank you and your firm for the support you gave me. Being a chair of governors, sworn to confidentiality, can be a lonely business! You kept me sane.”
Chair of School Governors
“You’ve been incredibly helpful with this. Thanks for always replying so promptly and for being a star.”
Private Sector Town Planning & Development Consultancy
“The experience has been really top end. Rather than just offering the options, they have given some real solid advice on the best route. It's a good business 'partnering' approach.”
Kent Fire and Rescue Service
“Their employment advice has always proved to be sound. I’ve worked with lots of different lawyers in London boroughs and I’d also say that Invicta Law is the most solution-focused.”
Kent Fire and Rescue Service

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