Shazia Khan
Associate
Employment Law
Shazia Khan is an Associate in the Employment department. Shazia previously worked at Legal 500 Firm Christian Khan where she was a Partner. She is recommended in The Legal 500 2009 and the directory describes her as follows: “Shazia Khan is singled out as ‘very responsive’”.
Shazia’s practice covers all areas of employment and discrimination law. She has acted in a number of high profile cases including Murray v Newham CAB [EAT Disability Discrimination] Bahl v Law Society and others [ET Race discrimination] and Ali Dizaei v MPS [ET].
Shazia acts for professionals such as senior consultants for whom she has achieved significant settlements particularly in cases involving race and sex discrimination. She also acts for organisations particularly in the NGO sector.
In 2005 Shazia was awarded The LAPG’s Young Legal Aid Lawyer of the year and was Key Note Speaker at the Annual Graham Turnball Lecture. She has spoken at the Law Society Minority Rights Conference and is a former Management Committee member of Newham Monitoring Project. She is currently the Chair of Governors of a local Primary School
A number of Shazia’s cases have been covered in the Media and she has appeared on BBC News and ITN to provide legal comment.
What the professional directories say:
Shazia Khan is "definitely one to keep an eye on." (Chambers 2011)
Chambers 2011
Employment: Employee ( Associates to watch )
Shazia's full profile and ranking status on Chambers 2011
Legal 500 (2009)
Employment: Employee / union firms - ranked in 3rd tier
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