Salima Mawji

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Salima Mawji is a specialist Education Lawyer with over 20 years experience in the field. Salima’s specialism is Further and Higher Education Law. From academic appeals to disciplinary issues, sexual misconduct allegations to challenges to fee status, fitness to practice to PhD issues, Salima has assisted many students in securing their rights in the education sector. Salima’s approach is to focus on an amicable and mediated settlement, where both parties find a mutually acceptable compromise. Litigation is an expensive process and with the change in the costs regime it will only become harder to bring cases. Salima has achieved many settlements for her clients and is passionate about enforcing student’s rights. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, the University of Reading and the College of Law (now the University of Law), Salima went on to qualify as a solicitor in 2001. She became Head of the Education Department a year after qualification and then set up her own boutique Education Law practice, Match Solicitors, in Partnership with another lawyer. Match Solicitors went on to be named Leaders in the Field and ranked 1 in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 in 2017 with Salima being named an expert in Further & Higher Education Law. In 2023 Salima has been named an expert in Chambers & Partners and ranked in Legal 500 as part of IBB’s Education Team. Salima has been interviewed by almost all the national media outlets including newspapers, television and radio on her thoughts around Education Law issues arising at universities and/or colleges. Salima then sold the Match Solicitors brand in 2018 and joined IBB Law as a Consultant in 2020 and built the Department from scratch. Salima now brings her expertise to NBB Law as a Consultant to advise and assist in building an excellent Education Team for the Firm. As a volunteer in the Ismaili Community, Salima has served as the legal counsel to His Highness the Aga Khan’s National Council in the United Kingdom between 2013 and 2017. Salima enjoys reading, writing and spending time with her little dog Marley.

  • Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority

  • Regulator ID: 276646

  • Based in Birmingham, West Midlands
  • Licensed for 24 years

Accepting new clients via ReviewSolicitors

Salima Mawji is a specialist Education Lawyer with over 20 years experience in the field. Salima’s specialism is Further and Higher Education Law. From academic appeals to disciplinary issues, sexual misconduct allegations to challenges to fee status, fitness to practice to PhD issues, Salima has assisted many students in securing their rights in the education sector. Salima’s approach is to focus on an amicable and mediated settlement, where both parties find a mutually acceptable compromise. Litigation is an expensive process and with the change in the costs regime it will only become harder to bring cases. Salima has achieved many settlements for her clients and is passionate about enforcing student’s rights. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, the University of Reading and the College of Law (now the University of Law), Salima went on to qualify as a solicitor in 2001. She became Head of the Education Department a year after qualification and then set up her own boutique Education Law practice, Match Solicitors, in Partnership with another lawyer. Match Solicitors went on to be named Leaders in the Field and ranked 1 in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 in 2017 with Salima being named an expert in Further & Higher Education Law. In 2023 Salima has been named an expert in Chambers & Partners and ranked in Legal 500 as part of IBB’s Education Team. Salima has been interviewed by almost all the national media outlets including newspapers, television and radio on her thoughts around Education Law issues arising at universities and/or colleges. Salima then sold the Match Solicitors brand in 2018 and joined IBB Law as a Consultant in 2020 and built the Department from scratch. Salima now brings her expertise to NBB Law as a Consultant to advise and assist in building an excellent Education Team for the Firm. As a volunteer in the Ismaili Community, Salima has served as the legal counsel to His Highness the Aga Khan’s National Council in the United Kingdom between 2013 and 2017. Salima enjoys reading, writing and spending time with her little dog Marley.

  • Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority

  • Regulator ID: 276646

  • Based in Birmingham, West Midlands
  • Licensed for 24 years

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Approachability 3.5/5
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Experience

  • Match Solicitors

    Compliance Officer for Legal Practice

    Until November 2019

  • Salima Mawji Ltd

    Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration

    Until May 2022

Languages spoken

  • English
  • Gujarati

Opening hours

Monday 09:00–17:00
Tuesday 09:00–17:00
Wednesday 09:00–17:00
Thursday 09:00–17:00
Friday 09:00–17:00
Saturday (Closed)
Sunday (Closed)

Grays Court, 11 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9NT

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I've been struggling for a year with the rejection of a car I had purchased in March 2025 and was getting nowhere. I spoke to Salima Mawji at NBB Waldrons Solicitors and she drafted one letter for me which helped me to get a positive result. Both Salima and Bailey Geater held my hand every step of the way and gave me hope. I was extremely happy with the service and the result.

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Overpriced and inaccurate

I only had an initial consult with NBB law regarding severe quality issues in my masters program at the University of Sheffield. Several students in the program have been affected and we have been trying to get a fair outcome for the past year. The solicitor I consulted with seemed to primarily be focused on getting payment for the consult - with much of the time being used for her explanations of the firms fee structure. When I attempted to say that these could be shared with me over email, and I would prefer if I could instead have some of my more pressing questions addressed, she said "we don't send this over email". Upon asking twice, her paralegal did provide me with notes - however the notes exhibit that they misunderstood key portions of the discussion. I felt the consult was too focused on providing a virtual meeting that could claim to have used up the entire duration that I'd paid for, the solicitor became uninterested because of the harms are nuanced and will necessitate some work and that the primary goal of the consult was to obtain the fee payment and use up my resources to outline their own fee structures.

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