Farrhat Arshad > Doughty Street Chambers > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Doughty Street Chambers Offices
Doughty Street Chambers
53-54 DOUGHTY STREET
LONDON
WC1N 2LS
England
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Farrhat Arshad
Work Department
Position
Described by Chambers and Partners as, “excellent in Court” and Legal 500 as a, “skilled and determined defence lawyer” Farrhat is instructed in Criminal Appeals and in serious crime, including murder, serious sexual offences, protest cases, drugs, firearms and fraud. Her civil work centres on Judicial Reviews arising out of both criminal and prison law, including challenges to Parole and categorization decisions. In recent years, Farrhat has been instructed in many out of time appeals to the Court of Appeal in relation to both conviction and sentence.
Farrhat has been recommended as a leading junior in Crime in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. She was profiled as a “Future star of the Bar”, by Times Online.
Farrhat accepts both privately and publicly funded instructions and accepts cases under the Public Access scheme.
Career
Called 1998; Inner Temple.
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Howard League for Penal Reform
Liberty
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).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 2Farrhat Arshad –Doughty Street Chambers ‘is the consumate appeals barrister with an instinctive feel for the shape of an appeal. She is a leader in this field.’