Zainab Saleem
Legal FellowAbout
Zainab is our Legal Fellow, working in particular on our Court Monitoring programme. Zainab has previously worked as a barrister’s assistant and completed a Master of Laws in human rights law from The London School of Economics and Political Science. Zainab has recently been called to the Bar of England and Wales.
Posts by Zainab Saleem
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UK Supreme Court finds for Nigeria on costs, but the lawyers at the heart of the explosive P&ID corruption saga must be called to account
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Zainab Saleem
Yesterday the UK Supreme Court unanimously found that P&ID, the small offshore company that tried to use arbitration proceedings to extort over $11 billion from Nigeria, must pay a hefty...
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Legal regulator to foot hefty bill for pursuing Carter-Ruck partner in OneCoin crypto scam SLAPP case
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Dr Helen Taylor
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Zainab Saleem
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Megan Davis
Today the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been told it is on the hook for more than half a million pounds in legal costs to Claire Gill, after the regulator’s SLAPPs...
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Collapse of major bribery prosecution triggers review of disclosure in 20 SFO cases
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Zainab Saleem
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Dr Helen Taylor
Today the Serious Fraud Office dropped a decade-old corruption case against former executives at London Mining PLC and their alleged ‘fixer’, exposing new problems with the agency’s legacy disclosure software...
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Dubai-based investment firm claims victim status in £30 million dirty money case
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Dr Helen Taylor
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Zainab Saleem
A major new McMafia order case was revealed yesterday, as a Dubai-based UK investment firm called Enspire Investments LLC approached the High Court claiming to be the victim of a complex fraud by the targets of an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) who allegedly siphoned off their €45 million investment.
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High Court set to rule on legal regulator’s investigatory powers
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Zainab Saleem
The High Court is set to rule on a defining challenge to the powers of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) after London libel firm Carter Ruck and British businessman Mohamed Amersi contested whether the legal regulator can compel the disclosure of legally privileged material during its investigations into professional misconduct.
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