Vajahat Sharif

Vajahat is a highly experienced and widely-regarded criminal litigator with considerable expertise in defending those arrested for (and / or charged with) terrorist-related offences, or individuals who find themselves subject to Control Orders, Assert Freezing and / or UN Sanctions.

Vajahat leads a team of highly experienced senior lawyers, caseworkers and experts (including barristers,  interpreters, Islamic experts, computer experts etc).

Recent cases involving those charged with Terrorism offences include:

1. R -v- Ruksana Begum who faces charges under S58 of the Terrorism Act.
2. R. v. Umran Javed, where his client faces charges under Section 58 of Terrorism Act;
3. R. v. Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid and Others , where his client faces charges section 5 of the Terrorism Act;
4. R. v. Mohammed Abul Hasnath, where his client faces charges under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act and Section 2 Dissemination of Terrorist publications;
5. R. v. Mohammed Chowdhury, Usman Khan and Others, where his client faces charges: Section 3 Conspiracy to Cause Explosions, Section 5 and Section 58 of the Terrorism Act;
6. R. v. Amir Ali, where his client faced charges under section 5 of the Terrorism Act;
7. R. v. Savant and others, where his client faced a charge of conspiracy to murder;
8. R . v. Usman Sadiqque, where his client faced charges under sections 5 and 58 of the Terrorism Act;
9. R. v. Abbas Taj and Others, where his client faced charges of arson Arson following the publication of the book “Jewel of Medina”;
10. R. v. Pa Joba, where his client facts charges under sections 57 and Section 58 of the Terrorism Act;
11. R. v. Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain, Ibrahim Savant, Umar Islam and Others, where his clients faces charges of conspiracy to cause mass murder by detonating explosives on board aeroplanes bound for the United States;
12. R. v. Bilal Addullah and Other, where his client faced a charge of conspiracy to murder (the so-called “Glasgow bomber”);
13. R. v. Habib Ahmed and 2 others, where his client faced charges in relation to membership of Al-Qaeda;
14. R. v. Yasin Nassari and others, where his client faced charges under sections 57 and 58 of the Terrorism Act;
15. R. v. Rauf Abdulla Mohammed, where his client faces charges under sections 57 and 58 of the Terrorism Act.
16. R. v. Ajmal Khan and others, where his client faced a charge arising from the alleged membership of a prescribed organisation (Lashkar-e-Taiba);
17. R. v. Asli and others, where his client was charged with offences in the so-called “Ricin case”;
18. R. v. Mohammed Al-Ghabra, where his client faced a charge under section 58 of the Terrorism Act;
19. R. v. Shazad Ashraf, where his client faced a charge under section 58 of the Terrorism Act.