Ali Naseem Bajwa QC

Practice

- Defence counsel specialising in serious crime and human rights
- Ranked as a leading silk in crime and civil liberties by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500
- Counsel in many important and high-profile criminal trials and terrorism cases
- Accepts public access instructions

Directories

"Bright and hard-working... acutely aware of the fundamentally important issues to be determined in a case... tribunals like him because he has a clear and articulate way of presenting arguments." Chambers UK 2012

"Regularly appears in terrorist-related control order cases and acted in AF, the leading House of Lords authority on control orders" Chambers UK 2011

"One of the leading individuals practising in control orders and terrorism. He frequently represents claimants seeking to challenge control orders imposed by the UK government" Chambers UK 2010

"Highly recommended" Legal 500 2010

"He demonstrates excellent advocacy and attention to detail, and a strong grasp of his subject" Chambers UK 2009

SAL Criminal Lawyer of the Year 2010

Cases

Homicide
R v DM - Murder by stabbing (ongoing)
R v KB - Uxoricide (ongoing)
R v Arif - Murder by shooting during 2011 riots
R v Malik - Uxoricide; defence of insanity
R v Hardy-Thomas - Murder by stabbing
R v Dawood - Double death by dangerous driving
R v Arkate - Attempted murder by stabbing
R v Head - Murder committed by identical twins
R v Danila - 'The Ambulance Murder'
R v Roper - Single punch manslaughter
R v Vaughan - Patricide
R v Khan - Murder with screwdriver
R v Hussain - Murder by beating
R v Morris - Gangland murder
R v Van Nguyen - Triad murder
R v Thompson - 'The Black Widow' murder
R v Ryan - Contract killing

Terrorism
Operation Overt - Trans-Atlantic airline liquid bomb conspiracy; represented acquitted defendant, Donald Stewart-Whyte
Operation Vivace - 21 July 2005 failed London bombings; represented main defendant, Muktar Said-Ibrahim
Operation Rhyme - US/UK terrorism conspiracy involving key US financial institutions, 'Gas Limos Project' and 'Dirty Bomb Plot'; represented main defendant, Dhiren Barot
Operation Subra - Conspiracy to provide money and property to a proscribed organisation, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba

Fraud & Financial Regulation
R v Butt - Pakistan cricketers spot fixing trial
R v Pillai - UK's largest set top box fraud
R v Grove - SFO prosecution of £60 million 'Ponzi scheme' fraud
R v Bane - Multi-million pound hand car wash fraud
R v Mahtani - Mastermind of UK's largest credit card fraud

Drugs & Proceeds of Crime Act
R v FRJ - Conspiracy to produce cannabis (ongoing)
R v Marku - Cannabis supply; UK's Strongest Man 2009
R v Beqiri - £2 billion cocaine importation conspiracy
R v Riasat - Eight-handed drug money laundering
R v Sarasia - £10 million heroin importation
R v Tascon - £100 million Columbian 'drug baron' case

Sports Law
ICC v Butt - Disciplinary hearing in Doha, Qatar of Pakistan cricketers spot fixing case, appeal against sanction to Court of Arbitration for Sport (ongoing)

Other Crime
R v Jahan - 'Riots hero' GBH trial
R v Roberts - 'The Southwark Rapist'

Public & Administrative Law
Secretary of State v AE - Control order served on Iraqi, damages claim for unlawful imposition of control order
Secretary of State v MB - First control order served on British citizen
Secretary of State v AL - Control order served on British citizen

Inquests
Re K - Six family members killed by fire in home (ongoing)

Health and Safety
Re Agulian - Fatal fall of guest from unrestrained hotel window

Reported Cases

R v Cook [2012] 1 Cr.App.R. 23: Application to intervene for acquitted co-defendants
R v Amir, The Times, 12 Dec 2011: Sentencing for sporting corruption
AN v Secretary of State, The Times, 1 Sep 2010: Quashing flawed control orders
Secretary of State v AF (No. 3) (2009) 3 WLR 74: Minimum disclosure requirements for control orders (HL)
R v Ibrahim (2008) 4 All ER 208: Admissibility of safety interviews
R v Barot [2008] 1 Cr.App.R. (S.) 247(45): Sentencing terrorist conspiracies to murder
Secretary of State v MB (2008) 1 AC 440: Article 6 requirements for control orders proceedings (HL)
R v Levin (2004) Crim.L.R. 493: Admissibility of hearsay evidence in confiscation proceedings
R v McWilliam [2003] 2 Cr.App.R.(S.) 1: Sentence for child death resulting from cruelty by adoptive parents
R v McKay [2000] 1 Cr.App.R.(S.) 17: Sentencing young offenders
R v Kartal [1999] 10 Archbold News 2: Excessive judicial intervention
R v Aziz, Archbold para 4-409: Judicial direction for mixed character evidence

Articles & Publications

The Saajid Badat Case: Inching Towards the US, Halsbury's Law Exchange, 23 April 2012
Trial by Ordeal, Counsel Magazine, September 2011, p. 26
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later, Counsel Magazine, July 2011, p. 32
Sentencing Terror Offences, Criminal Law & Justice Weekly (2010), Vol.174, p. 500, [2010] 10 Archbold Review 5
Terrorising the Innocent, New Law Journal (2010) Vol.160 (No. 7411 & 7412), p. 481
How Safe are Safety Interviews? Counsel Magazine, April 2010, p. 24, Criminal Law & Justice Weekly (2009), Vol. 173, p. 133
Human Rights and Terrorism, Justice of the Peace (2008), Vol. 172, p. 486
Fair Controls, New Law Journal (2008) Vol. 158 (No. 7305), p. 124
A Practitioner's Guide to Terrorist Trials, December 2007 (Contributing Editor)
Learn by Trial and Terror, Solicitors Journal (2007) Vol. 151 (No. 33), p. 7
Pre-Charge Detention in Terrorism Cases, New Law Journal (2006) Vol. 156 (No. 7245), p. 1578
Control Orders, CBA News, March 2006
Choose Life? Solicitors Journal (2004) Vol. 148 (No. 42), p. 1258
Article 6(1) v Abuse of Process, CBA News, June 2004

Associated Work

Accepts public access instructions.

Appellate work, including CCRC applications and Privy Council cases.

Writes and speaks widely on legal issues, including giving evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, contributing to the Legal Network Television educational DVD, "The Law on Terror" and addressing a number of human rights and counter-terrorism conferences.

Contributed to Criminal Bar Association working party reports on terrorism detention (PACE Code H), forensic science regulation and public access rules.

Intern at the Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights in Kingston in 1999. Pegasus Scholar at Crown Law Office in New Zealand in 1996.

Gray's Inn advocacy trainer and member of the Advocacy & CPD Committee.

Acting judge in training sessions held by College of Law and Metropolitan Police.

Admitted to the Lahore High Court.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association
Criminal Appeal Lawyers Association
South Eastern Circuit; Editor of SEC magazine, The Circuiteer
Bar Pro Bono Unit
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

Activities & Interests

Cricket, tennis, skiing, scuba diving, international film

Profile updated April 2012

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