Dr. Sonia Zaman Khan is the Principal Solicitor of Dr Sonia Khan Solicitors, specializing in all areas of family law. In addition, she handles matters of immigration law, civil litigation and employment law. Dr. Khan has a hands-on approach and provides a one-to-one quality service to her clients. Dr. Khan believes in long term client relationships thereby investing time and energy to understand her clients’ priorities, circumstances as well as their business, professional and personal realities. She is passionate about being a Solicitor, with over 15 years of standing and is committed to providing excellent services to her clients. Dr. Khan also regularly provides expert reports to the UK courts on Bangladeshi Laws, including aspects of Muslim family law including Shariah Law and socio-legal matters affecting UK immigration applications.
Being a dual-jurisdictional lawyer in the United Kingdom and in Bangladesh where she is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh since 1997, practicing in the areas of judicial review, family law, employment law, customs/VAT/tax matters, she has amassed extensive legal experience. She is a Partner of Jurists Chambers, Bangladesh since 2010. She previously worked in Hong Kong, as an In-House Legal Counsel in a private company, specializing in Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), having negotiated PPAs with the governments of Indonesia and Pakistan.
Having worked in the UK Third Sector for 10 years, she has also been a freelance socio-legal consultant, with non-governmental sectors both in the UK and Bangladesh, including Save the Children (UK) Fund, the World Bank, Transparency International (Bangladesh), Social Development Direct, Community Organisation Forum among others. She has authored several consultancy reports to her credit.
She graduated with an L.L.B Honours (1992) followed by a post-graduation LLM (1993) with a First from the University of Dhaka and was enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in 1997. Dr. Khan qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2007, after her law school studies (QLTT) at BPP Law School in 2006. In 2015, Dr. Khan attained her doctoral degree (PhD), Law, from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, having written her thesis on an aspect of the constitutional law of Bangladesh. Her thesis was published in 2018 by Routledge, titled ‘The Politics and Law of Democratic Transition: Caretaker Government of Bangladesh’, and the book is widely available in the UK and overseas.
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