Basharat Ali
[LLB Hons]
Solicitor Advocate [All Proceedings]
Basharat is a Solicitor Advocate [All Proceedings]. Having graduated from the University of Sheffield he completed his Legal Practice Course [LPC] at the College of Law, Store Street, London. Prior to founding Aman Solicitors Advocates Basharat practiced, firstly, as an employed solicitor and thereafter as a freelance solicitor and solicitor advocate with a number of firms across England.
Experience
Basharat has a broad range of experience as a solicitor and or as a solicitor advocate across the following areas of law:
1. Civil litigation, including unlawful detention and judicial review in many areas of law;
2. Immigration, asylum, nationality law, deportation, removal, detention, bail, SIAC cases;
3. Public and regulatory law for example dealing with disciplinary proceedings involving the General Medical Council, taxi licensing matters, food hygiene prosecutions etc;
4. Challenging decisions by a coroner to deny the use of non-invasive autopsies for orthodox Muslims and Jews;
5. Education law, for example, representing students challenging schools and universities in relation to disciplinary matters and also representing institutions challenging adverse decisions by government bodies.
6. All areas of family law, both, bringing and defending proceedings related to financial remedy, child arrangements, non-molestation and occupation orders and related proceedings.
Emergency Work & Injunctions
Advocacy
Notable Cases
House of Lords (which subsequently became the Supreme Court)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
S, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 546
EN (Serbia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 630
Sonmez v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 582
QJ (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 1478
Ahmed v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 118
Administrative Court
The Queen On The Application Of Ali Aksamaz v SSHD [2009] EWHC 266 (Admin)
The Queen On The Application Of Charles Abe Rotsztein v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner For Inner North London CO/4547/2014 (for the emergency injunction and initial pleadings only)
Asylum Country Guidance Cases
BA (Demonstrators in Britain – risk on return) Iran CG [2011] UKUT 36 (IAC) (10 February 2011)
NM (documented or undocumented Bidoon: risk) Kuwait CG [2013] UKUT 356 (IAC)
SIAC Cases
RR v Secretary of State for the Home Department – SC/53/2006
Accreditations
Basharat qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and acquired his Higher Courts Rights of Audience in All Proceedings in 2002.
Basharat is Law Society accredited at the Advanced Level which is the highest level of accreditation in the field of immigration, asylum and nationality law.
Basharat is also an experienced legal trainer and was a Law Society accredited CPD trainer until this requirement was abolished. Basharat has delivered professional
legal training courses for other solicitors and lawyers both within this firm and to other firms of solicitors, too.