Beena Faridi Email & Phone Number

Brighton

• Specialising in actions against the police, prison law and judicial review;
• Case management of high cost claims;
• Application of regulatory law to legal aid cases;
• Identifying legal issues, risk and novel points of law; and
• Managing high profile public interest cases.

London, United Kingdom

• Running multi-party equal pay claims against Sports Direct;
• Advising individuals on discrimination, whistle-blowing, redundancy, unfair and wrongful dismissal claims;
• Drafting instructions to counsel, ET1 forms, grounds of claims, witness statements and schedules of loss;
• Liaising with/updating insurers; and
• Advising on settlement agreements.

London, United Kingdom

• Assisting on group litigation in relation to the blacklisting of construction workers;
• Interviewing clients, collating evidence and legal research;
• Drafting schedules of loss, chronologies, particulars of claim and Orders.

London

• Representing and advising families in relation to Coroner’s inquests and civil claims arising from breaches of Art2 ECHR;
• Drafting witness statements, Orders, letters before claim, particulars of claim, instructing counsel and experts, drafting disclosure lists and document requests, issuing claims and attending conferences with Counsel.
• Advising clients on the merits of their case, liability, quantum, deadlines, funding implications and next steps;
• Drafting statements of case supporting applications for legal aid, case plans and appeals against refusal of funding;
• Ensuring legal aid funding is in place;
• Successfully advising client in an inquest regarding the death of her brother by obtaining a narrative verdict;

London, United Kingdom

• Legal research, preparing court bundles, ensuring claims are issued correctly and attending judicial review hearings;
• Providing administrative support for fee earners in the department including file management, drawing up bills and liaison with the Legal Services Commission.

London

• Working on multi-party equal pay claims against 9 Local Authorities;
• Preparing equal pay claims to be issued in the High Court, conducting CFA signing sessions, ensuring insurance in place, collating evidence, drafting witness statements and advising on settlement offers;
• Assisting senior solicitors in discrimination and employment matters;
• Drafting letters before action, statements of claim, freedom of information requests, schedules of loss, chronologies, instructions to counsel and tribunal order applications.

London, United Kingdom

• Managing own caseload of employment matters and assisting firm’s fee earners
• Drafting ET1 forms, witness statements, statements of claim, lists of issues, schedules of loss, chronologies, further and better particulars, tribunal order applications and funding applications to the Equality and.
• Interviewing clients, advising them on the merits of their case and cost implications;
• Dealing with varied cases of discrimination including the following areas: race, sex, disability, age, whistle-blowing, pregnancy, transgender, religion and sexual orientation;
• Advising on compromise agreements, HR policies and procedures, redundancy, unfair and constructive dismissals; and
• Successfully representing clients at CMDs and a contested PHR.

London, United Kingdom

• Advice and representation in the areas of discrimination, prison, anti-terrorism, detention overseas, police complaints, racially and religiously motivated hate crime;
• Drafting press releases, responses to government papers and depositions;
• Representing IHRC in meetings with Council of Europe, Independent Police Complaints Commission, government ministers and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe;
• Media interviews on human rights and discrimination issues with various media outlets such as BBC, SKY News, ITN, CNN and Al Jazeerah;
• Delivering lectures at an Amnesty International event, for the House of Lords and the Institute for Race Relations; and
• Supervising junior caseworkers.