Frida Hussain

Year of Call: 1995

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Serious Sexual Offences, Regulation/Compliance, Extradition, Anti-terrorism, Prison Law, Health & Safety, Police Disciplinary, Courts Martial, Immigration, Inquests & Public Inquiries

Known for her professional, dedicated and hard working approach with particular attention to detail Frida Hussain is well respected by the judiciary, her professional, lay clients and colleagues. She is instructed as a leading junior to lead other juniors as well as being led herself by Queens Counsel. She is experienced in all areas of criminal work as a specialist defence advocate and has a particular name for cases involving terrorism. She is one of the few female barristers in the UK to specialise in this area. Over the last few years she has practiced almost exclusively in this field regularly dealing with charges ranging from murder, conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause explosions and offences arising out of the Terrorism Acts.

Frida has been instructed as counsel representing defendants in many of the UK’s major high profile terrorist cases. These include the July 2005 London bombing campaign, the alleged terrorist training camp cases and the transatlantic airline bomb plot. Other highlights also include a multi-million pound fraud alleged to have funded terrorist activity in the Middle East.

She has particular linguistic ability and is a fluent speaker of Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi. She also possesses cultural awareness and knowledge of theological issues that are often at the core of terrorism cases as well as other more general crime involving such issues. She practices in Manchester, Leeds and Bradford, as well as London, and appears in courts at all levels including Courts Martial.

Frida also lectures on current criminal practice and procedure and provides practical advice to colleagues and instructing solicitors on topical issues, such as applications for warrants for further detention at the police station.
She is a selected advocacy trainer, regularly providing training to junior members of the bar in the skills required for effective advocacy through the Inner Temple advocacy training programme. In 2004 she traveled with other members of the panel to teach advocacy training techniques to members of the bar in Pakistan.

Frida was awarded a Pegasus Scholarship. As part of this she worked within the Australian criminal justice system for 3 months. She is a member of the Bar Council International Relations sub-committee, a volunteer member of the Inner Temple Scholarship panel and a registered pupil supervisor.