Profile description
Property & Housing
Ahmed has gained huge expertise in representing both landlord and tenants in many aspects of commercial and residential tenancy disputes, including possession, all manner of leases, dilapidations, unlawful eviction, harassment, disrepair, rent repayment orders and all manner of property-related injunctions. He also represented both the landlord and tenants in social housing sector on different issues.
Ahmed is routinely instructed to advise and represent clients faced with breaches of the HMO regulations in the magistrates' courts. He also accepts instructions to represent clients faced with business rates proceedings and council tax liability orders in the magistrates' courts.
Family Law
Ahmed is regularly instructed on complex financial remedy cases and disputes between unmarried partners after separation. He has a high success record and often supersedes client’s expectations. He is pragmatic and honest. He has considerable experience in the following:
- Financial remedy / division of assets
- TOLATA cases
- Co-ownership claims between co-habiting partners
- Co-ownership/trust claims involving third parties (typically parents)
- Third party interventions in divorce proceedings.
In addition to his fimaily finance practice, Ahmed has expertise in dealing with Child Arrangement Order cases, including those where fact finding hearings are ordered by the court to address allegations of abusive behaviour between parents and towards children. Ahmed is routinely instructed in cases featuring a requirement to navigate and understand cultural sensitivities between the parties.
He also deals with contested final hearings and applications for non-molestation and occuption orders. In the public law field, Ahmed deals with care proceedings, SGOs and adoption. He is a strong advocate and his submissions are often referred to as robust and incisive.
Trusts, Wills & Probate
Ahmed has considerable experience in representing clients in disputed wills and trusts and regularly advises on contentious probate cases.
Civil and Contractual
Ahmed is an all-rounder civil litigation advocate and regularly appears for clients in the High Court and County Court. His experience in this field includes contractual disputes, property and land, debt recovery and bankruptcy and insolvency. He has expertise in all stages of litigation, from drafting initial statements of case to appearing at hearings, trials, and appeal.
Professional Regulatory
Ahmed has also worked on a variety of professional regulatory matters. His clients in this field have included solicitors before the SDT, Nurses before the Nursing & Midwifery Council and a doctor before the General Medical Council. Ahmed has also appeared before the First-tier Tribunal (social security appeals) and Employment Tribunals.
Immigration & Nationality
Ahmed has been practicing Immigration laws since 1990 and is able to offer the best advice in all types of immigration, asylum and nationality issues using his expert practical knowledge. He frequently advises on complex visa related issues, drafts grounds of appeals and represent clients before the First Tier and the Upper Tribunals. He also settles grounds for Judicial Reviews challenging the decisions of the relevant authorities and represents clients at the High Court and Upper Tribunals.
Direct Access & conducting litigation
Ahmed is authorised to undertake direct access work and to conduct litigation, where he is instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor. He is very considerate and often accepts instructions on reduced fee from those of moderate means, as he is passionate about facilitating access to justice.
He is multi-lingual and can speak the following languages:
Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi and Urdu.
Professional Memberships
- Member: The Honorable Society of Gray’s Inn
- Member: The Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
- Member: Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
- Accredited Mediator (Civil & Commercial)
- Member: The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
