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Aysha Ahmad   Aysha Ahmad
Date of: Call - 1996
Phone:   020 7831 0222  
Fax:   020 7831 2239  
Email:   clerks@42br.com  
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Summary Of Practice

Areas of practice

  • Employment and Discrimination Law
  • Contract / Commercial
  • Planning and Local Government
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property

 

Practice experience:

Employment
Has experience of a broad range of cases before the employment tribunal, Representing both applicants and respondents.

Cases involving:

  • Constructive Dismissal
  • Unfair Dismissal
  • Harassment
  • Gross Misconduct
  • Redundancy
  • TUPE  

Race, sex and disability discrimination

Commercial

  • Experience includes a wide range of commercial disputes including:
  • Contractual disputes
  • Property disputes
  • Professional negligence

Professional Memberships

Administrative Law Bar Association
Employment Law Bar Association

Legal Assistant to the Law Lords, assigned to Lords Steyn and Hope (2000-2001)

 

Selected Cases

Work covered commercial and employment disputes, most notably the two landmark employment cases to reach the House of Lords in 2001:

Johnson (A.P.) v. Unisys Limited [2003] 1 AC 518; [2001] IRLR 179ñ Unfair dismissal, damages for injury to feelings, breach of implied terms concerning trust and confidence.

Lister and Others (AP) v Hesley Hall Limited [2001] 2 WLR 1311; [2001] IRLR 472 ñ Test for vicarious liability for employeeís torts.

Individually assigned to the Three Rivers case [2003] 2 AC 1 (creditors of BCCI suing the Bank of England for breach of regulatory duty).

In-House Counsel 1998-2000 (Employment and commercial litigation).

In-House Counsel for city solicitors firm, Raymond Saul & Co. In charge of BCCI group action (over 100 cases) that was sub-claim of the BCCI employeesí class action against the liquidators of BCCI for damages for loss of reputation and stigma, related to the cases of Malik v. Bank of Credit and Mahmud v. Bank of Credit (1998) AC 20; (1997) 3 WLR 95; (1997) IRLR 462 and Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (in Compulsory Liquidation) v. (1) Munawar Ali, (2) Sultana Runi Khan and Others (1999) 2 All ER 1005; (1999) IRLR 226.

 

Education

BA (Hons) (LSE); LLM (LSE). Specialist areas, employment law and human rights: Equality and the Law, the legal regulation of discrimination.  Dissertation on sexual orientation discrimination (ìSexual Orientation Discrimination: Unshackling its past, reconceiving its future.î)

Other Information

Languages
Fluent in Urdu

Hobbies
Scuba diving, skiing, dancing.