Criminal Law and Appeals

Farrhat Arshad specialises in the areas of criminal defence and human rights.

Farrhat accepts both privately and publicly funded instructions and accepts cases under the Public Access scheme. Please contact Richard Vile from our practice management team for further details.

Year of Call: 1998; Inner Temple.

Farrhat is instructed in Criminal Appeals and in serious crime, including murder, serious sexual offences, protest cases, drugs, firearms and fraud.  Her civil work centres on Judicial Reviews arising out of both criminal and prison law, including challenges to Parole and categorization decisions.  In recent years, Farrhat has been instructed in many out of time appeals to the Court of Appeal in relation to both conviction and sentence. Farrhat  was profiled as a “Future star of the Bar”, by Times Online.

Criminal Bar Association

Howard League for Penal Reform and Liberty.

King Edward VI Girls School; Exeter College, Oxford University (1996, BA Hons, 2:1); London School of Economics (1997, LLM, public and public international law).