Farrhat Arshad
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Position
Farrhat Arshad practices in crime and prison law and in judicial reviews arising from both these areas. She is instructed to defend both as a junior alone and led junior in serious crime, including murder, historic sexual offences, drugs and fraud. She acted for one of the six defendants in the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station protest case, which collapsed following defence requests for disclosure of the activities of undercover police officer ‘Mark Stone’. She acted in an appeal against conviction where she was described by the court as having presented the case with, ‘considerable skill’. Farrhat has also been instructed on a number of out of time appeals to the Court of Appeal in relation to both convictions and sentence, particularly in relation to sentences of life imprisonment and imprisonment for public protection. She has successfully appealed against a number of indeterminate sentences; in all cases the sentence was quashed and replaced with a determinate sentence. In prison law, Farrhat acts for prisoners both at first instance in parole boards and in judicial reviews. She has been described as, ‘incisive and personable’, (Chambers and Partners 2010) ‘excellent in court and can stand firm against the occasional attempts at pressure that a judge might try to use’ (Chambers and Partners 2009), ‘a determined advocate, who leaves no stone unturned in putting her case’ (Legal 500 2008). Recommended in Chambers & Partners in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and in Legal 500 in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Recommended as a ‘Future star of the Bar’, Times Online, 1 October 2007.
Career
Called 1998; Inner Temple.
Member
Criminal Bar Association.
Education
King Edward VI Girls School; Exeter College, Oxford University (1996, BA Hons, 2:1); London School of Economics (1997, LLM, public and public international law).
