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Imran Shaikh

Imran Shaikh

Imran is an Assistant Crown Attorney in the Regional Municipality of Hamilton having moved there after spending almost a decade as an Assistant Crown Attorney in the City of Toronto. In this role, Imran prosecutes Criminal Code offences in the Ontario and Superior Courts of Justice varying from domestic assault and drink-and-drive cases to serious firearm, sexual assault, and homicide cases.

Imran also prosecutes offences under the National Defence Act with the Canadian Armed Forces’ Judge Advocate General branch. As a Reserve Force Military Prosecutor under the authority of the Director of Military Prosecutions, he travels nationally to conduct Court Martials on an annual or bi-annual basis. He currently holds the rank of Captain with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Imran is an Adjunct Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law where he has been teaching the first-year Criminal Law course since the law school’s inception in fall 2020. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Department of Criminology, where he taught the first-year Intro to Criminal Justice and third-year Criminal Courts in Canada undergraduate courses. He has also been involved with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Law Practice Program.

Imran is an alumni of Toronto Metropolitan University, where he graduated summa cum laude obtaining an Honours Degree in Criminology and a Minor in Sociology. He went on to obtain his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Windsor Law School, where he clerked with the Superior Court of Justice, travelled to circuit courts in the Northwest Territories, and was chosen to provide weekly supplementary seminars to first-year law students in the Constitutional Law course. Upon graduation, he was the proud recipient of the Justice Bruce J.A. MacDonald award for Criminal Trial Advocacy. 

Imran is also a contributing author to the publication, "Communications Law in Canada".

Outside of work, Imran loves to play tennis, tries to stay active at his local CrossFit gym, and thoroughly enjoys travelling.