Show options

England

Barristers

Naima Asif

Naima Asif

Position

Naima specialises in family law, court of protection and public inquiries. She has a keen interest in protecting the rights of vulnerable and marginalised individuals and has been commended for her analytical mind and ability to draw out the essential points of a case.

Naima is dual qualified, having obtained rights of audience in the High Court of Pakistan in 2015. Alongside her core practice, Naima maintains a particular interest in cases concerning human rights and social justice issues and has been involved in capital cases before the senior courts in Pakistan.

Naima is a member of the Centre for Women’s Justice legal reference panel and a volunteer lawyer for Not Beyond Redemption.

Career

Called 2012, Lincoln's Inn.

Naima qualified as an Advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan in 2015.

Memberships

  • Advocate
  • FLBA
  • Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales
  • Lincolns Inn
  • CoPPA

Education

  • BPTC, BPP Law School
  • LLM (International law), University of Birmingham
  • LLB, University of Leicester

Personal

Publications

  • An Introduction to sharia law and the death penalty, Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford University (2021)
  • United we stand, divided we fall; terrorism as an international crime versus terrorism as a transnational crime, Westlaw (2016)
  • Women, children and minorities in Pakistan; status, rights and vulnerabilities, Lincolns Inn (2014)
  • Children increasingly face neglect amid failing national systems, Family Law ICLIP Jordans Publishing (2013) (co-author)
Content supplied by Pump Court Chambers