Matrix Chambers

Mariyam joined Matrix as a member in May 2023. She is currently developing a practice in all aspects of media and information law including defamation, privacy/misuse of private information, confidentiality, data protection and harassment.

Mariyam has acted in a number of complex and high-profile media law cases, both as sole counsel and as part of a counsel team. For example, she appeared (unled) in the High Court, on behalf of the London School of Economics, where she was successful in getting the claim against her client struck out. She acted (led by Clare Montgomery KC and Anthony Hudson KC) for the Defendant in the well-known Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception Litigation. She also appeared for Times Media Limited in a return date of the privacy super-injunction, which was granted on the application of the Ministry of Defence to protect the personal information and contact details of persons who applied for relocation to the UK from Afghanistan following the Taliban coup in 2021.

Before coming to the bar, Mariyam read for the BCL, MPhil and DPhil degrees at the University of Oxford. Her research, which examines the constitutional right to privacy in India, was cited with approval by the Supreme Court of India in KS Puttaswamy v Union of India AIR 2017 SC 4161. She is the author (with Sara Mansoori KC) of the chapter on ‘Remedies’ in the forthcoming edition of Online Publication Claims: A Practical Guide.