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Mr Hashi Mohamed

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Position

Hashi’s practice focuses on all aspects of planning and environmental law, including housing, infrastructure, enforcement, development consent orders (DCO), and compulsory purchase work (CPO). Hashi appears on behalf of claimants and defendants and specialises in all aspects of planning and environmental law.

He undertakes work on behalf of a diverse range of clients including housebuilders and major landowners, SMEs and individuals, , as well as local planning authorities across England and Wales; including at hearings and inquiries, local plan examinations, High Court and the Court of Appeal. He is ranked by Planning Magazine in the top 10 of ‘Top Rated Juniors’ in 2023.

Hashi is a published author of two critically acclaimed books; People Like Us; What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain (Profile Books, January 2020) and A Home of One’s Own: Why the Housing Crisis Matters (Profile Books, September 2022).

He is the Chair of Coin Street Housing Cooperative on the South Bank, responsible for 220 high quality affordable, social housing, including in the OXO Tower.

Hashi is fluent in Somali and French.

Memberships

• The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
• Administrative Law Bar Association
• Planning and Environmental Bar Association

Education

• 2009-2010 – Bar Vocational Course, City University London
• 2008-2009 -MSc, St-Antony’s College, University of Oxford
• 2003-2007 – BA (Hons) Law and French, University of Hertfordshire
• 2005-2006 – Erasmus Scholar, Political History, Philosophy and French, Universite de Jean Monnet, St-Etienne

Publications

• Visit Rwanda: Britain’s harsh welcome for refugees – June 2022
• Planning, Housing & Politics – Feb 2022
• Don’t turn the clock back on racial justice – April 2021
• People Like Us – R4 Book of the Week – Oct 2020
• Sir William Macpherson on what’s happened since Stephen Lawrence Inquiry – March 2019
• Macpherson: What Happened Next – March 2019
• BBC Radio 4, Start the Week: Jordan Peterson, Rules for Life – May 2018
• As more young people die on London’s streets, its time to take drastic measures – April 2018
• Scott. E. Page – Diversity Bonus: the intellectual and moral case for diversity – August 2017
• Setting UP Home: BBC Radio 4, The Fix – August 2017
• Telling children ‘hard work gets you to the top’ is a lie – April 2017
• The ‘case for the wild card’ – April 2017
• Adventures in Social Mobility: BBC Radio 4 – April 2017
• The Boat Children, my time in Italy – December 2015
• A tale of two Alis, a bit more about my background – December 2015
• My lecture on terrorism in London, Response to Terror – July 2015