Muslim Lawyers Action Group: Recent Episodes
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MLAG aims to raise awareness of current human rights issues. Striving to facilitate a better understanding of human right principles and to promote solution oriented discussion.
MLAG's Ramadan Reflection (2022)
Sumayah discusses the importance of perfecting your character as a Muslim.
This audio was taken from the question & answer session of our MLAG hosted webinar titled 'Growing your wealth so its Halal & Tax-efficient' on the 22nd of September 2021
The speaker: Abul joined Wahed Invest in 2019 having spent the previous 18 years in wealth management. He has predominantly worked as an investment and wealth management advisor for a range of Banks including Kleinwort Hambros Private Bank and HSBC managing portfolios of high & ultra-high net worth clients and their families. Abul is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. Outside of work, Abul is married with two children. His interests include travelling and sports.
This audio was taken from our MLAG hosted webinar titled 'Growing your wealth so its Halal & Tax-efficient' on the 22nd of September 2021
The speaker: Abul joined Wahed Invest in 2019 having spent the previous 18 years in wealth management. He has predominantly worked as an investment and wealth management advisor for a range of Banks including Kleinwort Hambros Private Bank and HSBC managing portfolios of high & ultra-high net worth clients and their families. Abul is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. Outside of work, Abul is married with two children. His interests include travelling and sports.
This podcast is with Majid Mahmood from City Law Chambers in which he discusses with our member from the students group, Maryam Shah on the procedures of stop and search and responses to commonly asked questions. This is a part of a wider series of knowing your rights when dealing with the police.
This episode is sponsored by City Law Chambers
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How should the UK deal with British citizens who travelled to Syria and allegedly joined Islamic State but now wish to return to the UK? This complex question has been at the heart of the on-going case of Shamima Begum and well as others such as Jack Letts (‘Jihadi Jack’) and Tauqir Sharif (‘Tox’) who have all been stripped of their citizenship. This webinar looks at how this counter terrorism measure is being deployed by states in response to this issue and whether, from a human rights perspective, states have an obligation to take back such individuals. Is banishment the just and only solution? And, does this measure actually make the world safer or is it a gross miscalculation and, in fact, counter-effective?
About the Speakers: Tayab Ali, Partner, Bindmans LLP
Tayab is an internationally recognised and highly respected Solicitor Advocate. His practice encompasses criminal and civil/public law in both the UK and international jurisdictions. Tayab is one of the country’s leading authorities on counter-terrorism law, having acted in numerous high profile prosecutions over the last two decades. He was the solicitor in the Supreme Court case, R v Gul, which defined "terrorism" in the context of military attacks by non-State armed groups in a non-international armed conflict. He also acted for Sally Lane and John Letts, the parents of ‘Jihadi Jack’, who were prosecuted for funding terrorism when they sent money to their son in Syria. The case involved pre-trial clarification of law, which included a Supreme Court case ruling on the test in terrorism funding cases and a Court of Appeal case which ruled on whether duress of circumstances was available as a defence in terrorist funding cases. Tayab is currently representing several Syrian returnees and a man who was unlawfully detained by the UK and US armed forces for a 10-year period during the Iraq war.
Letta Tayler, Senior Researcher in the Crisis and Conflict Division, Human Rights Watch.
Letta leads the division's work on terrorism and counterterrorism. Her focus includes the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, counterterrorism policy at the United Nations, drone strikes and other targeted killings, and counterterrorism measures in countries around the world. Tayler has worked in more than three dozen countries as a human rights defender and in her previous capacity as a journalist. She has been a featured guest on The BBC, CNN, Fresh Air, Al Jazeera and Democracy Now!. As a foreign correspondent with Newsday, Tayler was one of the first Western reporters to detail prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and chronicled events including the US invasion of Iraq and the bombings of Tora Bora. Tayler is a former rock music critic.
Fahad Ansari, Solicitor at Riverway Law
Fahad is an immigration and nationality law solicitor specialising in complex cases involving an overlap with issues relating to national security. Fahad is regularly instructed by foreign nationals facing deportation following convictions for terrorism, and is currently representing a number of British nationals who have been deprived of their UK citizenship on grounds of national security. Fahad regularly writes about current affairs and has had articles published in the Guardian and New Statesman. He is regularly invited to comment on legal developments by numerous media outlets including the BBC, Sky News, CNN, TRT and Al-Jazeera. Fahad has spoken at international conferences around the world including at the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva. He is a contributor to a forthcoming book, I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security.
This webinar is introduced and moderated by Sultana Tafadar (Barrister at No5 Chambers), Head of Counter-Terrorism & National Security Working Group, Muslim Lawyers Action Group.
As the Coronavirus pandemic rages on, the government has quickly sought to push through a raft of legislation purporting to deal with terrorism and national security issues. According to the government, the new Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill 2020 aims to protect the public by keeping the offender in custody longer and imposing stringent conditions when released. Further, it seeks to introduce draconian changes to Terrorism Prevention & Investigation Measures (TPIMs) which are imposed on those that present a ‘threat to national security’. The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill 2020, according to the government, is crucial in preventing and safeguarding victims from many serious crimes including terrorism, drugs and firearms offences and child sexual exploitation. The Bill provides an express power to authorise CHIS to participate in conduct which would otherwise constitute a criminal offence. And finally, the Overseas Operations (service personnel and Veterans) Bill 2020, according to the government, will provide greater legal protections to armed forces personnel and veterans serving on military operations overseas. Human rights activists argue that these Bills are alarming and go too far. On the one hand, we see the creation of an ineffective and draconian regime which does little or nothing to address the root causes of terrorists’ offending behaviour. And, on the other hand, we see the handing over of wide-ranging powers to State agencies to operate above the rule of law, to commit crimes at home and abroad, with impunity. This webinar examines the human rights implications of these Bills, whether they are necessary, and whether they serve the interests of counter terrorism and national security.
About the Speakers
Imran Khan QC
Imran has been a practicing solicitor since 1991. He is probably best known for his representation of the family of Stephen Lawrence during the private prosecution, inquest and public inquiry into Stephen’s murder. Imran was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2018 having been a Higher Rights Advocate (HRA) for many years. He regularly appears at the Old Bailey and other Crown Courts in London and the U.K in cases involving murder, terrorism and other serious offences. Imran is Patron of the University of East London Law Clinic, a Trustee of the British Institute of Human Rights and Visiting Professor of Law at London South Bank University.
Naeem Mian QC
Naeem has been involved in most of the major, high profile terrorism related cases in the UK. To date, he has been instructed on in excess of 50 such cases. Some of his landmark cases include securing the acquittal of one of three men charged in connection with the 7/7 London Underground bombings that resulted in the murder of 52 people (R v Saleem & Others); securing the acquittal of a defendant charged with planning a bombing campaign on the UK mainland (R v Hussain); securing the acquittal of a defendant alleged to be making his way to fight in Syria (R v Diini & Others); the acquittal of a defendant dubbed the “Jihottie” charged with funding terrorism abroad (R v Nawal Msaad); and being instructed in the first ever terrorism trial to be heard in secret (R v AB). In addition, Naeem is one of a handful of Counsel regularly instructed on behalf of individuals subject to Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (TPIMs)- formerly Control Orders.
Omran Belhadi, Barrister, Nexus Chambers
Omran undertakes both criminal and civil work as a barrister. Prior to joining Nexus Chambers, Omran worked at international human rights charity Reprieve on cases involving human rights abuses in counter-terrorism operations, including the cases of Belhaj and Another v Jack Straw and Others [2018] UKSC 33 and Yunus Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 1. Omran worked on cases challenging the UK government’s involvement in torture and drone strikes. While at Reprieve, Omran has worked on complex tort claims and judicial reviews as well as claims to the International Criminal Court. Between 2012 and 2013, Omran worked with Justice Project Pakistan in Lahore, Pakistan on litigation seeking to repatriate Pakistani citizens held by the US military in Afghanistan. He advocated for their release before US military boards and government officials from the US, Pakistani and Afghan governments.
Nadia Akhtar, MLAG Working Group
Rashidul Islam, MLAG Working Group
This webinar is introduced and moderated by Sultana Tafadar (Barrister at No5 Chambers), Head of Counter-Terrorism & National Security Working Group, Muslim Lawyers Action Group
This webinar is introduced and moderated by Sultana Tafadar (Barrister at No5 Chambers), Head of Counter-Terrorism & National Security Working Group, Muslim Lawyers Action Group
In celebration of International Women’s Day our fantastic line up of solicitors and barristers speak on their experiences navigating the profession.
Listen to their empowering and inspiring stories of making it in the legal profession, a profession that can be notoriously difficult to break into.
Listen in to our third panel discussion out of 3 in commemoration of International Women's Day.
IG: @MuslimLawyersActionGroup
Twitter: MLAG123
www.mlag.legal
In celebration of International Women’s Day our fantastic line up of solicitors and barristers speak on their experiences navigating the profession.
Listen to their empowering and inspiring stories of making it in the legal profession, a profession that can be notoriously difficult to break into.
Listen in to our second panel discussion out of 3 in commemoration of International Women's Day.
IG: @MuslimLawyersActionGroup
Twitter: MLAG123
www.mlag.legal
In celebration of International Women’s Day our fantastic line up of solicitors and barristers speak on their experiences navigating the profession.
Listen to their empowering and inspiring stories of making it in the legal profession, a profession that can be notoriously difficult to break into.
Listen in to our first panel discussion out of 3 in commemoration of International Women's Day.
IG: @MuslimLawyersActionGroup
Twitter: MLAG123
www.mlag.legal