Nabila specialises in Human Rights. On returning to the BAR in August 1997, she practiced largely in the field of employment, and has conducted a number of 5- 10 day hearings, representing Claimants

She joined the 7 New Square Public Law team in September 2002 and has been Counsel in a number of authoritative cases. She has extensive experience of court of appeal ,High Court advocacy and is counsel to a number of cases pending at the European Court of Human Rights.   

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She has a 2:1  LLB (Hons) (highest first in a final year paper) and LLM in Commercial & Corporate Law from University of London. During the years away from the Bar she taught at both A Level and undergraduate level and  worked in the human resources industry . She was also a contributor to 'Legal Life' Magazine.   

Nabila is passionate in representing her clients and has been involved in a number of publicised cases ;

 (i) Malik Madani (unlawful detention) Times 28th February 2007
(ii) K. Williams (JR of Deportation/ Detention) - 'Accident/ Murder? Why Did Anastacia die?' (doc) BBC 2
(iii) A. Glanville- 'Deportation trick ruled lawful' BBC News and the Times 27/9/2005 
(iv) M. King - 'Judge bans asylum seeker from IVF course.; The Evening Standard 18th July 2005 
(v) T. Price 'Trudi's big pay out'  The Sun 7th April 2000
(vi) Suriya Jabeen v Tower Hamlets - Muslim Weekly - Dec 2004
(vii) Jacobi -v- Market Tavern Ltd - Jewish Chronicle - March 2002

Nabila is known for her creative approach combined with a good understanding of the law. She represented Crown Agents in the first telephone multi track case.  She advised successfully that the CPR could be used to allow witnesses to give evidence by telephone from Mozambique, Angola, Spain and Washington (reported in the District Judge's Journal in 2003).

She has been Counsel in the following authoritative cases:

Mlauzi v SSHD (2005) EWCA ( The Times February 2005) (Error of law and Costs)

DK(Serbia) and others v SSHD (2006) The Times 9^th January 2007 ( lead case  on Procedural Rules)

EO(Turkey) v SSHD (2007) AIT (guideline deportation case) (Led by Andrew Nicols at the court of appeal)  

LG (Italy) v SSHD (2008) EWCA (obtained 1^st stage reconsideration and permission to appeal to the court of appeal)

Abdi & others v SSHD (2008) EWCA ( (on appeal to the court of appeal) (lead case on Procedural Rules)

JN(UGANDA) (Article 8) (2007) ( law society Gazette, July 2008),  WLR

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Reported Cases

GO (Nigeria) (2007) EWCA EIN (key case - petitioned to the House of Lords)

R v London Borough of Hackney exparte Akbas (1999)HC Lawtel

Rv Secretary of State For HD exparte Kitson Locke (2005) Lawtel

S -v- Secretary of State for HD (2005) EWHC EIN

BE (care proceedings) Jamaica v SSHD (2005)00098 IAT (EIN) (Macdonalds 11.15 & 11.17 )

Faryed Zurieh v SSHD (2006) EWCA (EIN) (practice directions)

Kanapathiar v Harrow Parking enforcement (2004) EAT (procedural rules)

DA (risk- return- reporting restriction) Sri Lanka CG (2002) UKIAT 04279

PB (Bangladesh) (2007) EWCA EIN (policies)

Korkmaz, R (on the application of) v SSHD (2008) EWHC 950

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