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Amina Graham is a sought-after practitioner with extensive experience providing legal advice and representation across the spectrum of Sports Law, Professional Discipline, Inquests, and other Regulatory sectors.

Amina worked at The Football Association (The FA) as an in-house barrister and Head of the Regulatory Legal department for over a decade. She was responsible for representing The FA in disciplinary proceedings and providing legal advice in all football disciplinary matters throughout the football pyramid, up to and including, the Premier League. She has substantial experience of advising on and appearing in cases involving anti-doping, on-field misconduct, betting and anti-corruption, financial regulation, agents’ regulation, discrimination, and safeguarding. She has been involved in some of the most high-profile cases in football regulation over the last decade.

Prior to joining The FA, Amina was a barrister at a leading chambers in London, specialising in criminal law. She also spent six months in The Hague, Netherlands, in the trial against Charles Taylor (former President of Liberia), who was charged with war crimes before the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Amina is regularly instructed in respect of inquest proceedings and has acted for various interested parties during the inquest process. Recent instructions include representing the interests of a care home in relation to the death of a vulnerable adult, representing a health trust in the death of an autistic young mother, and a complex Article 2 jury inquest into a death in custody. Amina is also regularly instructed to act on behalf of medical professionals at inquests.

She also acts for both individuals and regulators in Professional Discipline proceedings, with particular experience representing police officers in gross misconduct proceedings. Her most recent cases include representing a serving Metropolitan Police Firearms Officer in police misconduct proceedings, which are currently the subject of judicial review following his acquittal. Amina also acts for various healthcare professionals involved in fitness to practice proceedings and has significant experience of advising on internal investigations, disciplinary and regulatory matters, and grievances.

Amina is a member of the football League Managers Association legal panel and is regularly instructed to provide legal advice and representation to professional football managers. She also sits on various sports disciplinary panels.

Amina is ranked as a Leading barrister in the field of Sports Law in both Chambers and Partners, and The Legal 500. She was recently shortlisted for Sports Junior of the Year in The Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2024.

Called 2008.

League Managers Association, Legal Panel Member; Sport Resolutions Specialist Member of the National Panel and the National Safeguarding Panel (2024–2027); UK Athletics Disciplinary and Selection Appeal Panel Member; England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Safeguarding Panel Member; Badminton England Disciplinary Panel Member; Sport Resolutions Pro Bono Panel Lawyer; British Association for Sport and Law; Women in Sports Law; Middle Temple.

BVC, University of Law; LLB (Hons), Brunel University London.