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 and hearings;• 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;• Advocacy on behalf of patients at mental health tribunal hearings and hospital meetings;• Successfully represented a restricted patient at his s37/41 Mental Health Tribunal Hearing; • Advising on fitness to practice hearing.• Assisting the head of the department on a wide range of high profile, novel and complex cases and hearings including Judicial Reviews, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court hearings;

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 Human Rights Commission;• 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.