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Named one of the Law Society Legal Heroes 2023 representing the best of the professionLaw Society Legal Heroes 2023

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Described as an “exceptional lawyer” and a “pioneer in her field“, Shabina is featured in Management Today’s “35 Women Under 35, 2020 ” List of Britain’s Brightest Young Business Leaders and is one of the 2023 Law Society Legal Heroes.

Shabina is an UN recognised authority on child, early and forced marriage. She is an expert in domestic violence, honour based violence, forced marriage, stranded spouse and female genital mutilation cases; and additionally has specialism in children disputes, divorce and financial orders with expertise in Shariah law; both family law and Islamic financing. Shabina is a Resolution accredited Specialist in Child Abduction & Forced Marriage and Honour-based Violence and she has worked as an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate handling high risk cases and extremely vulnerable clients.

سن 2012 میں انہیں ونسٹن چرچل ٹریول فیلوشپ [Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship] سے نوازا گیا جس کے تحت انہوں نے تیزاب سے حملوں کے مسئلہ پر قانونی تحقیق کو انجام دینے کے لیے سری لنکا، کمبوڈیا اور ہندوستان کا سفر کیا۔ 

شبینہ کانفرنسوں اور سیمیناروں کی ایک معروف اسپیکر ہیں۔ سن 2013 میں انہوں نے ‏'لندن میں نسوانیت' (Feminism in London) کانفرنس میں خطاب کیا اور سن 2016 میں انہوں نے نیو یارک میں اقوام متحدہ کے جنسی مساوات اور خواتین کو با اختیار بنانے سے متعلق ادارہ (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) کے ذریعہ منعقدہ خواتین کی حالت سے متعلق کمیشن [Commission on the Status of Women] کے سولہویں اجلاس سے خطاب کیا۔ وہ ٹی وی پر بھی اسلام چینل کے "Live the Life" پروگرام میں آ کر تیزاب کے حملوں سے متعلق اپنی بات رکھ چکی ہیں۔

Shabina was formerly a part time lecturer in law: she taught Sex & Gender in the Legal Process, a module led by the prominent Dr Jocelynne Scutt, and Legal Skills & Procedure at the University of Buckingham and she also taught Advocacy & Professional Ethics at the University of Greenwich.


Shabina is a member of Resolution, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Careful Child Relocation and she is a Member of Middle Temple.


Awards & Recognitions
  • Law Society Legal Heroes Winner (September 2023)
  • Winner in the business category of the Women of the Future Awards 2020 (4 February 2021)
  • Shortlisted as a finalist in the business category for the Women of the Future Awards 2020 in association with Aviva (October 2020)
  • Featured in Management Today 2020’s “35 under 35” list of Britain’s brightest young businesswomen (June 2020)
  • Fulbright Scholarship (2018)
  • Top 100 leading British Bangladeshi figures on the British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration List (2017)
  • Alumni of the Year, University of Greenwich (2016)
  • IKWRO True Honour Award in Special Recognition as a Professional Working to End "Honour" Based Violence (2016)
  • Top 100 Influential Bangladeshis by the British Bangladesh Power and Inspiration Awards (2014)
  • Churchill Fellow Medallion by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, for her research (2014)
  • Lord Lowry Scholarship by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (2008)
  • Blackstone Entrance Exhibition Award (2008)
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