“It’s a surreal experience,” says No5 Chambers’ Sultana Tafadar
A Luton-born lawyer has turn out to be what’s believed to be the first hijab-wearing prison barrister to be appointed Queen’s Counsel.
Sultana Tafadar QC, a tenant of No5 Barristers’ Chambers in London, obtained the particular silk standing at a ceremony on the Palace of Westminster on Monday.
“It’s a surreal experience,” Tafadar advised the PA information company. “I’m absolutely delighted, especially as the first hijab-wearing barrister to have been admitted at the criminal bar.”
“Representation is really important”, she mentioned, including that it will probably hopefully assist the desires of different younger hijab-wearing feminine legal professionals “become a reality”.
Congratulations to Harpreet Singh Sandhu QC and Sultana Tafadar QC on taking Silk immediately at Westminster Corridor!#SilksDay #QueensCounsel pic.twitter.com/OTSvETNxkf
— No5 Barristers’ Chambers (@No5Chambers) March 21, 2022
Tafadar, who has Bangladeshi roots, studied an LLM in human rights at UCL and was referred to as to the bar in 2005. She additionally holds a masters diploma in worldwide human rights from the College of Oxford.
She continued: “There have been challenges in court, there have been challenges in the workplace in my previous chambers, but I’m glad to say that it is possible to overcome those challenges and it is possible — having the opportunities — it is possible to shine.”
However Tafadar isn’t the first hijab-wearing barrister to have taken silk. That accolade is claimed to go to Blackstone Chambers‘ Shaheed Fatima QC, who was elevated to the title in 2016.
Tafadar’s appointment comes after two members of human rights set Doughty Road got here collectively to design and launch a particular vary of hijabs to put on in court docket.