Semera Bibi
Solicitor
Background/Experience:
Semera Bibi is a Senior Litigation Solicitor and compliance-minded practitioner specialising in complex defended possession proceedings. With over a decade in the legal field, she brings extensive court advocacy experience, and a practice built around high-stakes disputes on both the claimant and defendant sides. Her litigation background spans civil and criminal matters, representing clients across a wide spectrum of contentious issues requiring procedural precision, strategic escalation, and litigation-grade drafting.
She leads her own possession department within a firm that houses a wider possession team reflecting her distinct litigation style, strategic autonomy, and sector following built through longstanding collaboration with nationwide estate agents and property professionals.
Her practice spans a mixture of litigation areas reflecting a broad and adaptable litigation portfolio including:
Her work includes housing disrepair claims, where she acts for tenants facing unsafe or neglected conditions issuing proceedings, securing urgent repairs, and pursuing compensation for statutory breaches.
She represents clients in company and partnership disputes, including matters involving breakdowns in trust, mismanagement, and contested financial arrangements. She prepares proceedings where misconduct, financial opacity, or breach of fiduciary duty demands judicial intervention.
She acts in failed property transactions involving deceased sellers and lender-initiated possession claims, asserting equitable interests for clients who have occupied or invested without legal title.
Semera represents clients in planning and property disputes where light, privacy, access, or amenity are at risk. She has secured formal consideration of objections at Planning Committee level to consider complex, controversial and major planning applications, ensuring that complex or policy-sensitive applications are publicly scrutinised. Where procedural safeguards are ignored, she is equipped to argue judicial review ensuring lawful decision-making and protecting client interests.
She acts in contested County Court Judgment (CCJ) matters, including cases involving default judgments, enforcement risks. Her work includes setting-aside applications, seeking injunctive relief.
She has experience acting in boundary disputes and company insolvency matters, including cases involving frozen company accounts, where she has successfully secured unfreezing orders based on fact-specific arguments.