
Pump Court Chambers
England
Barristers

Naima Asif
- Phone020 7353 0711
- Email[email protected]
- Social
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)