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Ayesha practices in all aspects of family law with some specialist knowledge in Islamic law. She is renowned for her tenacity and fearless advocacy in court. |
1987 Gray's Inn call |
- Degree/University
- LL.M (Hons) Cantab
LL.B (Hons) Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria - Scholarships/awards/prizes
- Jurisprudence prize
Best overall Student prize - Memberships
- FLBA (Committee Member)
CEBA
Member of the Punjab Bar, Lahore, Pakistan - Areas of Practice
- Ancillary relief
- Public children law
- Private children law
- Forced Marriage
- Recognition of foreign marriages with particular emphasis on Islamic marriages/ divorces
- Domestic violence
- Child abduction
- Reported Cases
- Re P ( Contact: Supervision) [1996] 2FLR 314,
Re S [2001] 2 FLR 507,
Re K ( committal) [2003] 1 FLR 277,
S v S and M ( existence of constructive trust and proprietary estoppel) [2007] 1 FLR 1123
Re H ( talaq and divorce) [2008] 2 FLR 857,
R v E and F female parents : Known father)[2010] 2 FLR 383
Chief Constable, A v YK and ors ( forced marriage) [2010]EWHC 2438 - Languages
- Urdu ( fluent)
Hausa ( working knowledge) - Outside Interests
- Loves the theatre and swimming
- Articles
- "Islamic Family Law in the English Courts" (1998) Fam Law 100
- "A Brief Introduction to Marriage in Islamic Law" (March 1999) Fam Law 164
- "Contact and illegitimacy in the Muslim Community" (Dec 2000) Fam Law 928
- "To tell or not to tell, that is the question" (May 2008) Fam Law 458. (When can it be in the child’s interests not to know its true parentage?)