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Asian lawyer

by Mrs Zara Lang
04:18pm - 28th May, 2008


I met the most professional young lawyer who helped me bring my husband over from Malaysia.

I was told by many lawyers that I wouldn’t be able to make an application due to my financial situation but MashAllah the angel Miss Aqsa Azim from Jones Gray solicitors prepared my case which was a success within 2weeks.

I recommend her to all my Muslim and Asian friends who require legal advice.


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03:50pm - 7th June, 2008Selma
Thanks we need young asian professionals doing us proud.
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12:53pm - 11th August, 2008mrdoubtful
haha...is this for real or is this an advert for Miss Aqsa Azim from Jones Gray that was posted by Miss Aqsa Azim from Jones Gray or a colleague?
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09:33pm - 11th August, 2008addictive
haha... is mrdoubtful for real or is this a post by someone who seems to have lost all concept of manners?
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10:05am - 12th August, 2008mola ram
haha... is 'addictive' so naive that she can't tell a real post from a blatant advert?
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08:30pm - 12th August, 2008addictive
no, she's just having a blatant dig at mrrude, i mean mrdoubtful...
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11:57am - 13th August, 2008Raja
Can she help me get a date? Im getting sick of women just looking at me and laughing.

I mean come on, why should us short fat blokes be so ridiculed?

Im styling my remaining hair in a cool middle partition now, also started using the lynx deodarant, started going gym, trim my moustache to not cover my lips anymore.

Help me Zara help me!!
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04:17pm - 24th August, 2008senior singh
Anyone seen this story? It shows that libel law is only for the rich - £500,000 court fees!
Legal aid should be used for libel cases, in my opinion. That would make journalists act more responsibly.

Standard in £585,000 payout over sex pest story
1 May 2008

By PA Mediapoint

A senior Air India executive was today awarded £85,000 libel damages - plus about £500,000 legal costs - over newspaper allegations that he was a serial sex pest.

Ashvini Kumar Sharma, a former army captain who was once aide-de-camp to the President of India, said that the "grossly defamatory and fundamentally false" front-page article in the London Evening Standard in August 2006 had damaged both his reputation and his health.

After an eight-day trial at the High Court in London, a jury of six men and six women returned a verdict that the newspaper had failed to prove that the words complained of were substantially true.

Mr Justice Eady granted a stay on payment of the damages and costs pending a possible application by the newspaper for permission to appeal.

After the verdict, Sharma said: "I am delighted to have been totally vindicated. There was not a shred of truth in any of the allegations made against me.

"This is exactly what I said on the day the article was published. I am extremely grateful to my legal team and to the jury and the justice process of this country."

Sharma said that, ironically, he had since been promoted to the post of an executive director of Air India at its Mumbai headquarters.

Captain Sharma's counsel, Ian Winter QC, had told the court that the allegations led to his being shunned in the UK, the country he had wanted to make his home with his wife of 25 years and two grown-up children.


Just before his successful four-year tenure as the airline's Heathrow-based director for UK and Europe was due to end, he was told by police that there had been a complaint from a female ground services employee, but the investigation was concluded with no charges brought.

When he read the Evening Standard article, headed "Sex Shame of Airline Chief", he was devastated.

"In short, his world fell apart. He was unable to sleep or eat properly and fell into depression. In the following six months, he lost 10kg in weight and was prescribed diazepam for anxiety and insomnia. Thanks in large measure to the support of his loving wife and family, he has recovered," said Mr Winter.

The newspaper story could only mean that Captain Sharma was guilty of sexual harassment of such seriousness that it resulted in his summary dismissal and that he only previously got away with it because of his political connections.

Associated Newspapers and journalist Amar Singh argued that the article did not mean that 53-year-old Captain Sharma was guilty of criminal conduct, but that he exploited his position to prey on vulnerable females.

The publishers accepted that Captain Sharma was not called upon to step down and did not resign his post, which had expired naturally and led to his promotion.

But they called witnesses in a bid to prove that Captain Sharma sexually harassed six women, aged between 18 and their early 30s, who were described as being "within or near the bottom rung of their employment".

The jury was told that the case was about "the conduct of a powerful man in and out of the workplace in relation to junior women workers".

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06:00pm - 27th August, 2008Raja
Dude, giving the link would be fine lol
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05:28pm - 24th September, 2008Anil_K
Now tell me mrdoubtful why would that be an advert? do lawyers need to place ads they make so much money in it (senior singh). i dont see any contact details if i did i would contact the miss any day. good jobs need praising in it mate
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05:31pm - 24th September, 2008Anil_K
tnks for da detail senior singh
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