Tag: Solicitor

Aneeta qualified as a Solicitor in 1998. She is a Solicitor Advocate and one of the four founding partners of ABV Solicitors. Aneeta was appointed a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates’ Court) in 2009.

Tribunal judge Samina Majid was appointed as a fee-paid judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber, in 2019.

Lesley Smith is a full time Judge of the Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber. She was previously a fee-paid Lawyer Chairman of the Residential Property Tribunal, and a senior Government Lawyer with the Treasury Solicitor’s Department. Lesley is a former ILEX Fellow.

My parents are from East Africa, as first-generation immigrants they came to the UK in the 1970s. I was born and raised in North London.

I grew up and went to school in North London, where my family settled after leaving Zambia in the 70s. Along with one of my siblings, I was the first in my family to enter higher education, studying law at Oxford University.

I was appointed as a salaried judge in December 2019 after spending 20 years as a solicitor. My career path into the legal profession did not follow the traditional route.

I qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and the focus of my private practice is intellectual property and technology litigation.

I am a solicitor advocate; I started my legal working life in the City, doing insurance, banking and regulatory litigation.

I grew up in the West Midlands and was the first person in my family to go to university. After secondary school I was not sure what I wanted to do but it had been suggested that a law degree would keep my options open.

I grew up in South London, went to the local grammar school, and was the first person in my family ever to go to university.  I qualified as a solicitor in the late 1980s and have spent most of my career in commercial dispute resolution.