1 Inner Template Lane, Barristers Chambers
Prior to entering the legal profession, Mumin trained and worked as a journalist where he dealt with human rights and community issues. His practice incorporates criminal, immigration, employment and general commercial law. Mumin has also advised on copyright issues including material on the internet.
Year of call: 2000
Experience
In criminal law, Mumin has conducted trials across a wide range of offences involving complex fraud, serious assaults, rape, to sexual assaults in addition to being led on murder. Having once been a police station representative, Mumin is familiar with criminal proceedings from the point of charge to jury trial.
Additionally, Mumin is also instructed by a number of solicitors for asylum and immigration cases including student and marriage entry clearance applications. Quite often, he finds this area of law complements his criminal practice, for example, where those who breach UK immigration law are prosecuted.
Having once worked in a top employment firm, his knowledge of employment law was further consolidated during pupillage under a pupil master who is now a full time employment judge. Mumin represents both employees seeking redress, be it for unfair dismissal or redundancy, and employers seeking to defend claims. His clients have included ordinary workers to schools and business organisations.
Notable Cases
The Chief Constable of the British Transport Police v Soods Solicitors (2010)
This case involved successfully resisting the application of the BTP for a wasted costs order against the Respondent solicitor.
R v MS & ES (2010) (Canterbury CC/High Court)
Facilitating the breach of immigration law. The defendants were convicted of smuggling ES’s son into the UK for the purpose of seeking asylum. The decision to prosecute was challenged on the basis that Article 31 of the Refugee Convention offered a remedy against prosecution. In addition, it was argued that the scope of section 31(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 should be construed to comply with Article 31. This case gave rise to a novel point of law concerning the relationship between Article 31 and section 31(3) of the 1999 Act namely whether a genuine asylum seeker can be prosecuted for assisting another genuine asylum seeker (whose claim is subsumed into his own by virtue of their parent/child relationship and especially where the Home Secretary has accepted them as presumptive refugees) to enter the UK in breach of immigration law.
R v Choudhury (2010) (Winchester CC)
Complex mortgage fraud involving buying and reselling properties between family and close friends.
R v G (2009)(Chelmsford CC)
Represented a young male accused of rape by a female whose case was undermined by the existence of CCTV footage.
R v C (2009) (Blackfriars CC)
Sophisticated car insurance fraud carried out by dishonest claim handlers that ensnared unwitting victims.
R v Khan (2008) (CCC/CA)
Was led on a murder trial that featured an anonymity order. The case was one of the first ones heard after the decision in R v Davis [2008] UKHL 36 and the subsequent Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act 2008.
R v A (2007) (Croydon CC)
Involved a large-scale internal bank fraud organised by bank employees working in call centres with access to customer details.
R v A (2007) (Bournemouth CC)
Allegation of sexual offence against a minor made against a member of the same family.
R v Stoica Lika (2005) (Southwark CC)
Concerned a major card-cloning factory that was responsible for a great number of identity frauds through cloned bankcards.
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