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Mr Kawsar Zaman

Work Department

 

• Employment Law
• Public Law
• Education Law
• Regulatory Law (Professional Discipline, Health & Safety)
• Personal Injury
• Clinical Negligence
• Mediation

Position

Kawsar Zaman is a UK qualified Barrister, Mediator and Solicitor (non-practising).

He enjoys a diverse practice with particular expertise in Employment, Regulatory and Public Law. He has appeared before a range of courts and specialist tribunals. He is regularly instructed in complex matters – beyond his level of call – both as an advocate as well as in an advisory and investigatory capacity.

Kawsar graduated with a First-Class law degree from the London School of Economics, before reading for the BCL at Oxford University as an OCIS Scholar, and then the LLM at Harvard Law School, where he was Fulbright Scholar.

Kawsar is accredited to accept direct instructions from members of the public where appropriate.

Kawsar is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator, internationally recognised as the standard of excellence for mediators. He accepts instructions to act as a Mediator or as a Mediation Advocate, from both professional clients and on a direct access basis.

Career

Before becoming a Barrister, Kawsar was a solicitor at ‘Magic Circle’ law firms Clifford Chance LLP and Allen and Overy LLP in London, where he specialised in Financial Services Regulatory Law acting for some of the world’s largest corporate and financial institutions on a range of high-profile matters. He also worked on high-value International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation matters, complex Banking and Finance transactions, and in forming Private Funds.

He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the University of Law and has taught law to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Queen Mary University of London, and at the London School of Economics.

In 2009, Kawsar was a Global Fellow of the Prime Minister.

Languages

English

Bengali

Memberships

 

• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2020)
• The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn (2018)
• City of London Law Society (2018)
• City of London Solicitors’ Company (2018)
• Freeman of the City of London (2018)
• Roll of Solicitors, Law Society of Ireland (2018)
• Roll of Solicitors, Law Society of England & Wales (2017)

Education

 

• Harvard Law School – LLM – 2014 – Fulbright Scholar
• University of Oxford – BCL – 2013 – Tun Mahathir Scholar
• London School of Economics – LLB Hons – 2012 – 2HC Scholar