Black Letter Law Directory | 2015 | The Groups

Stephen Akinsanya  is the Chair of the British Nigeria Law Forum (BNLF) since April 2015. Stephen is a barrister specialising in complex and serious crime both in England and Wales and in the Turks and Caicos Islands. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators,a...

Sarah Austin has been the Principal at Austins Solicitors in London since 2004, specialising in complex probate, including foreign assets and liabilities, drafting and explaining trusts and debt collection and litigation. She also holds Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners...

Rukia Baruti, a non-practising solicitor qualified in England and Wales, is founder and Managing Director of Africa International Legal Awareness (AILA), a non-profit organisation working to build capacity in African and other developing countries on international economic law, with a core...

Yvonne Brown is a consultant with Legal Management Consulting in London and a former Chair and founding member of the Black Solicitors’ Network (BSN), of which she is now an Honorary Board Member. In recognition of her work, the BSN awarded her the Outstanding Solicitor of the Year award in...

Peter Herbert OBE, who was voted one of the 100 Great Black Britons, is a barrister who has developed an impressive human rights, childcare and heavy criminal practice. He is an executive member and has been the Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers since 1984, championing the cause of racial...

Raj Joshi is the Vice Chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, having served as Chair between 2000 and 2001. He is also on the Committee of the Judicial Studies Board. He gave evidence for the Society and drafted some of the recommendations put forward to the inquiry into the death of Stephen...

Paulette Mastin, Counsel in the Capital Markets practice at Linklaters, became the Chair of the Black Solicitors’ Network’s City Group after its launch in 2008. She joined Linklaters as a trainee solicitor in 1995 and has been part of the firm’s Corporate Trust team within Capital Markets...

Ifath Nawaz is the Senior Solicitor for Chiltern District Council in Buckinghamshire and a consultant on planning and development work, parliamentary process and national infrastructure development.with boutique planning firm, Ivy League Ltd. She was the President of the Association of Muslim...

Boma Ozobia was elected as the first female President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association in Hyderabad, India. The Commonwealth Lawyers Association represents lawyers from all 54 Commonwealth countries as well as Law Societies and Bar Associations from the Commonwealth. Previously, in 2005,...

Neelam Sarkaria is the Chair of the Association of Women Barristers. She is a criminal justice consultant and was until March 2015 the Head of the Criminal Justice Unit within the Strategy and Policy Directorate at the Crown Prosecution Service. Neelam also sits as a fee-paid Tribunal Judge in...

Semaab Shaikh is a barrister at Broadway House, which has Chambers in Leeds and Bradford. She practises in the areas of Family Law and Immigration Law and is recommended by the Legal 500 for her specialist knowledge and ability to represent clients in the most difficult situations. Semaab is also...

Nikki Singla, a barrister at Wilberforce Chambers, is a member of Commercial Bar Association’s Executive...