1 Inner Template Lane, Barristers Chambers
Islam has a keen interest in Criminal Defence and Public law. He comes with vast experience from the third sector.
Islam is keen in developing a practice in criminal defence, public law and international public/crime law. He comes with vast experience from the third sector, asylum and immigration tribunals, housing, social welfare and the civil service. Year of call: 2008
Experience
He started working from a very young age in various respective fields to hold and support his family; he comes to the Bar with life experience with a varied career background from becoming a chef to owning his own catering businesses and working as a host at the Millennium Dome.
He studied law as a mature student whilst working full time as a civil servant in various departments at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This included the Human Rights Policy Department, UK-visas, Consular and heading the Benefits, Pay and Policy section of HR. He also served overseas as a diplomatic officer in Nigeria.
Islam has a developing practice in Asylum and Immigration law whilst working as a consultant for a number of public law solicitors. He has been involved in the Court of Appeal case of Quila representing Bibi and others challenging the UK government’s age bar policy on overseas marriages. This is currently being decided by the UK Supreme Court and is the first case to be telecasted. He specializes on immigration/crime related matters representing at the IAC upper tribunals on points of law.
Whilst sitting on a number of panels in Tower Hamlets he advises a number of charitable organisations across the country and has developed an array of knowledge in the area of charity law. Notably, he was involved in engaging various stakeholders to diffuse the Shajalal mosque fiasco in Tower Hamlets that was widely reported. He is also legal advisor to the Council of Mosques, the Stifford Centre in Tower Hamlets and has worked at Bail for Immigration Detainees, Fair Trials International, Hackney Law Centre and is an active mediator for Tower Hamlets Mediation Services.
Qualifications
LLM (LOND)
Bar Vocational Course, ICSL (Outstanding in Legal Research)
Awards / Achievements
Canary Wharf Legal Training Award
Tower Hamlets Bar Vocational Award
Fight for injustice Scholarships
Tower Hamlets Mentor of the Year 2009
Lady Oliver Cup Mooting Competition (Quarter Finalists)
Judge at BPP annual moot competition, 2nd round
Presented on Visa and Human Rights training courses at Foreign Office
1st year LLB Moot assessments (1st class)
Memberships
Amnesty International
Amicus
British Computer Society (Cybercrime panel)
Criminal Bar Association
Inner Temple
International Law Association
The Haldane Society
Publications
International Law and The legality of the Flotilla raid by Israel.
Indirect discrimination by raising the marriage age rule to 21.
Religious implications for Hindu pyres in the UK (Ghai and Others).
FGM: “an Islamic practice or modern fashion.
Mediation in practice.
Islam speaks fluent Bengali (mother tongue and Sylheti), and is conversational in Urdu and Hindi
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