[citation needed] At Bindmans LLP Chahal has worked on many high-profile and cutting edge cases involving right-to-die campaigners, including Tony Nicklinson,[3] Omid T,[4] and Phil Newby.
Chahal appeared on BBC Radio 4's 2019 Test Case: The Legacy of Debbie Purdy, to discuss Purdy's case with professor Deborah Bowman, Purdy's husband Omar Puente, and barrister and peer Charlie Falconer,[6] and Omid T. who travelled to Switzerland for an assisted death in October 2018 while waiting for the courts to consider his case seeking "a declaration under Section 4 (2) of the Human Rights Act that Section 2 (1) of the Suicide Act 1961 which makes assisting in a suicide a criminal offence is incompatible with his rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights".
Nicklinson, a then 56 year old from Wiltshire, a father of two daughters, suffered a stroke in 2005, which left him almost totally paralysed, only able to move his eyes and head.
[8] In a widely reported case Chahal acted for Anna Savage whose mother jumped in front of a train whilst a detained patient.
[9] Chahal represented the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe in his appeal to have a tariff, or minimum term, set for his sentence, and received hate-mail and negative media coverage.
[13] Chahal successfully prevented a Serious Crime Prevention Order against Michael Steven Sandford, a British citizen who attempted to shoot Donald Trump during his presidential campaign in June 2016 and was changed with disorderly conduct and with being an "illegal alien in possession of a firearm" serving a 12 months and one day prison sentence in Nevada, the UK Crown Prosecution Service sought a Serious Crime Prevention Order against Sandford on the basis that he posed a "serious risk" to Trump, seeking to curtail his activities during the time of the visit yet Chahal evidenced that the legal test could not be met, resulting in the claim being dismissed.
[14] In 2008 the Guardian's Afua Hirsch noted that Saimo had 'built a career on helping people turn disadvantage into pioneering litigation, a record that won her the legal profession's highest accolade... Law Society Solicitor of the Year.