Housing barrister Zia Nabi, of Doughty Street, won the award for outstanding achievement, this year’s Laly’s (Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards)
Nabi was recognised for '30 years, living and breathing housing law’, winning better protections for tenants and homeless people.
Criminal defence lawyer of the year went to solicitor Laura O’Brien, of Hodge, Jones & Allen, who successfully represented the ‘Colston 4’ who made history by toppling the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
Wilson Solicitors’ Chris McKendry won social welfare law for his work at the Special immigration Appeals Commission ‘involving closed hearings, which neither lawyer or client can attend’. Family law barrister Amean Elgadhy, of One Pump Court, won Legal aid barrister of the year. Leigh Day’s Anna Moore won the award for Disability rights.
See the rest of the 2022 winners here.
