Tarsem Salhan – Director

Tarsem Salhan has been a criminal solicitor for over three decades.

He specialises in serious crime including murders, frauds, money laundering, large-scale drug conspiracies, firearms offences, trafficking and other organised or gang-related offences. Over recent years, his workload has included numerous cases involving EncroChat evidence.

Tarsem has extensive experience of serious and complex cases. The cases he has dealt with include the following:

Around 100 murder cases

Numerous EncroChat cases involving the use of encrypted phones. EncroChat evidence currently features in most of Tarsem’s cases

Over 100 large-scale conspiracies to supply Class A drugs

Large-scale frauds (including VAT frauds, property frauds, immigration frauds, credit card frauds, investment frauds, etc)

Firearms offences and knife crime, both often being gang-related

Numerous money laundering cases and proceeds of crime (POCA) proceedings

Serious wounding / assault charges

Cases involving extraditions from mainland Europe

Other serous and/or complex cases

Many of Tarsem’s cases have been widely reported in national and local press. Although based in Birmingham, his clients are located throughout England and Wales.

Tarsem takes pride in providing clients with shrewd and realistic advice. He believes in ensuring that clients understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of their cases from an early stage so as to achieve the best possible outcome.

Tarsem was admitted in 1989 and has specialised in criminal defence work since 1990. He set up his first practice in 1993 and established Salhan & Company in 2000

Away from the office, Tarsem enjoys football, golf and travel.