Family

Ancillary Relief : Financial Provision and Property Adjustment; Financial Provision after a foreign decree.

Children: Residence, Contact, Care Proceedings; Emergency Procedures; Financial Provision for Children

Declarations of Marital Status. Illegitimacy.

Trusts of Land
including Property of Cohabitees; Resulting & Constructive Trusts; Proprietary Estoppel; Undue Influence.

Inheritance Act & Wills

Specialist knowledge of conflicts between English and Islamic Law, particularly in areas of divorce (talak) and dower (mehr)

Re P (Contact: Supervision) [1996] 2 FLR 314

Re L,V,M & H (Contact: Domestic Violence) [2000] 2 FLR 334

Re S [2001] 2 FLR 507

Re K [2003] 1 FLR 277

“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?)

Fluent in Urdu and Hausa

Legal services Commission (Committee)

Family Law Bar Association (former Committee Member)

Commonwealth Ethnic Barristers Association (former Secretary)