Adithi Shenava

Adithi accepts instructions across Chambers’ principal areas of work.

She is instructed in a broad range of cases in the Crown, Youth and Magistrates’ Courts, with particular experience of sensitive matters involving vulnerable defendants and witnesses. She has completed the ICCA training to represent children and is experienced in working with intermediaries and representing clients with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities.

Adithi also accepts instructions in professional discipline and has completed the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s advocacy training. During pupillage, she assisted senior members of Chambers in professional discipline matters, including an SRA prosecution.

She has a particular interest in international criminal law and extradition. Before commencing pupillage, Adithi undertook a traineeship with the defence team in The Prosecutor v Al Hassan before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. She assisted with preparations for sentencing and appeal, focusing on legal issues concerning evidence obtained through torture. During pupillage, she was subsequently instructed in the same case to draft filings for the reparations phase of the proceedings.

Before coming to the Bar, Adithi worked as a legal caseworker at United Voices of the World, representing predominantly low-paid and precarious migrant workers in Employment Tribunal proceedings. She also worked at the Arizona Capital Representation Project, assisting with post-conviction appeals in death penalty cases.

Adithi has further legal experience from the charitable and pro bono sectors, including working as a Casework Volunteer for Southall Black Sisters and the Refugee Law Clinic, and as Senior Director of the School Exclusion Project.