Francis Taylor Building

Planning Environment Local Government Compulsory Purchase and Land Valuation Parliamentary

Saira's practice covers all aspects of planning and environmental law, local government and administrative law, highways, compulsory purchase, Transport and Works Orders and parliamentary.  She regularly appears in the Court of Appeal, High Court, Public Inquiries and the Crown and Magistrates Courts in a wide range of proceedings.

She is ranked as a leading planning silk in Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and by Planning Magazine.  Saira was nominated as Planning and Land Use Silk of the Year 2024 by the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024.  She is nominated as Barrister of the Year by Inspirational Women in Law Awards 2024.
In 2020 and 2021 she was chosen by The Planner as one of the Women of Influence.

Called 2000, QC 2014, Inner Temple; Advocate of High Court of Pakistan.

Urdu, basic French.

PEBA NIPA CPA

St Swithun’s, Winchester; Kinnaird College, Lahore (BA); University Law College, Punjab University, Lahore (LLB); University College, London (LLM Corporate and Commercial Law); Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon (LLM Environmental Law and Policy).