Future star of the bar  

"Who are the Pannicks and Sumptions of the future? Meet ten barristers of less than ten years call who may have what it takes." Alex Aldridge, writing for The Times Online, says this of Farrhat Arshad :

"Year of call: 1998. Like many London-based criminal juniors, Oxford and LSE graduate Farrhat Arshad became frustrated at the lack of big cases coming her way. So, employing inverse Dick Whittington tactics, she upped sticks to Garden Court North, a civil liberties set in Manchester. The move has clearly worked. Since arriving up north, the “skilful and feisty” Arshad has found the streets paved with the kind of high profile cases that she could only dream of as a young barrister in the capital. Highlights include acting for Linda Walker, the teacher who fired an air pistol at a group of youths; successfully defending a woman accused of falsely imprisoning her daughter-in-law; and representing Fathers for Justice members in appeals against their convictions. Arshad also regularly undertakes crime-related judicial review work, prison law hearings and civil actions against the police. She is currently acting for a defendant in one of the biggest ever cannabis importation cases in the UK. ".

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