ZAHRAH SEHR VAYANI

L.L.B. Hons, University of Manchester (2007)
Barrister at Law, Inns of Court School of Law (2008)
Attorney at Law New York, BPP London (2010)
Advocate High Courts Pakistan
CEO Women Lawyers Association

Barrister Zahrah Sehr Vayani is an experienced litigator who has represented her clients in a broad range of legal matters including but not limited to areas of civil, family, property, banking, finance, media, commercial, arbitration, constitutional and criminal law. In Addition to her regular practice, she also partakes in handling pro bono and lo bono cases. Licensed as an Advocate for the High Court of Sindh, Ms. Vayani has been practicing law in Pakistan for over eleven years.

Ms. Vayani completed her LLB Honours from the University of Manchester, following which she was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2008. Whilst working in London, Ms. Vayani successfully passed the New York Bar exam and became an Attorney at Law, New York.

She has founded her own law firm Zahrah S. Vayani & Associates. She has been appointed as The Assistant Attorney General of Pakistan. Miss Vayani serves as the C.E.O of the Women Lawyers Association and has been a strong advocate for the advancement and empowerment of women in the legal profession and otherwise. She is also the Subject matter and technical expert on the Provincial Parliamentary Advisory Committee for Child Abuse.

EXPERIENCE

Ms. Vayani has worked for three years in England and for over ten years in Pakistan, providing a full range of legal services of both litigious and an advisory nature. Ms. Vayani has extensive experience in corporate matters, litigation and arbitration spanning numerous areas of practice, including corporate & commercial law, criminal law, anti – narcotics, labour, contract law, family law, human rights, competition law, taxation, intellectual property, property law, constitutional law, civil service laws and banking laws. In addition to appearing and conducting cases regularly before the High Court and Subordinate Courts of Sindh, Ms. Vayani has regularly appeared before quasi-judicial tribunals and authorities including the Federal & Sindh Service Tribunals and the Customs Tribunals, and regulatory bodies including the Securities and Exchange Commission Pakistan, Competition Commission Pakistan and National Accountability Bureau. In April 2018, Ms. Vayani conducted a trial as lead counsel, before the Commercial Court (High Court of England and Wales) in London and also does advisory work for companies based in the United Kingdom.

NOTABLE SUCCESSES ANDACHIEVEMENTS

Non Political Subject matter and Technical Expert on the Provincial Parliamentary Advisory Committee Sindh on child abuse.

Chosen as Grazia Magazine's Glorious 21 of 2020

Public Interest Litigation: predictable Continuity and Radical Departures - special mention by the author Mr. Faisal Siddiqui

Nominated for Gender and Diversity champion 2020-2021 Women in Law Awards

Nominated for Advocate of the year 2020-2021- Women in Law Awards

Speaker on the three member panel along with Retired Justice Nasira Iqbal and Justice Ayesha Malik on Gender Diversity and Inclusion at the Bar

Conducted a case before the Commercial Courts of England in 2018 (Rolls building London) representing a Dubai and Islamabad based company “Interactive E- Solutions” against “O3B Africa limited”

Was part of the prosecution team for the Shahrukh Jatoi Trial

Has spoken extensively on Transgender Rights, Inheritance rights, the role of Media Reporting in cases, Divorce and Custody cases as well as Women's Rights to Property.

Conducted several Police trainings on Evidence Collection in criminal matters as well as how to counter Child Beggary

CLIENTS (Past and Current)

VIDEOS


press kit
Appointed as Vice Chair of the YMG Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb- Pakistan Branch)
Nominee for Advocate of the Year in Pakistan’s 1st Women in Law Awards
Nominee for Gender and Diversity Champion in Pakistan’s 1st Women in Law Awards
Speaker at the Gender and Diversity Seminar held by the Sindh High Court Bar Association, alongside Hon’ble Justice Majida Rizvi and Hon’ble Justice Ayesha Malik
Appointed as a Non Political Subject Matter Expert and Technical Advisor on the Provincial Parliamentary Advisory Committee Sindh on Child Abuse
Published in Ananke Magazine pertaining COVID in Pakistan
Program Advisor at the Seminar for Women’s Right to Marital Property, held in Karachi, by the Legal Aid Society in Collaboration with MUSAWA.
Certificate of Appreciation: Contributor to the 2018 Women Judges Summit held in Islamabad
Acknowledgment of Assistance in Research Paper titled “Public Interest Litigation : Predictable Continuity and radical Departures by Mr. Faisal Siddique
Certificate of Appreciation by the Karachi Police Training School for delivering a lecture on "Advance Investigation"
Certificate of Appreciation by the Karachi Police Training School
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Interview in PTV channel
Grazia Magazine’s Glorious 21 of 2021
Certificate of Appreciation by the Police School of Investigation, Garden, Karachi

publications
November 26, 2023
12 November 2023
08 November 2023
November 06 , 2023
04 October 2023
17 November 2022
12 November 2022
May, 2022
دسمبر 18, 2021
2021
2021
Aug 13, 2020
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