Introduction

Zahra has developed a successful practice encompassing regulatory and public law. She is ranked as a leading junior in the Legal 500. 

Testimonials

Zahra is empathetic with clients, and gets to the crux of the client’s needs with ease. Legal 500 (2025)

Court of Protection

Zahra has experience in Court of Protection cases. Her experience includes best interests decisions on health and welfare, property and affairs, medical treatment, welfare decisions relating to care, residence, family contact and Deprivation of Liberty issues.

Professional Discipline

Zahra frequently appears before professional panels and tribunals. She also appears in the High Court on Interim Order matters.  Zahra is commended by professional clients for her understanding of public law principles.  She is entrusted to provide legal advice to regulatory bodies, as well as defence unions and solicitors.

Zahra is ranked as a leading junior in the Legal 500.She has been commended by clients for her high standards of professionalism and client care. She delivers seminars and training to professional clients. 

Zahra accepts instructions as Special Counsel. 

Inquests and Inquires

Zahra has experience of working on public inquiries. She has been instructed as a junior member of the Counsel team to the Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Crime

 Zahra has been appointed as a Commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission by Her Majesty the Queen. The Commission is an official independent body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

Zahra commenced her legal career at the Criminal Bar after having trained in-house at a criminal defence firm. She has prosecuted and defended a range of offences.

Publications

Recent publications

“Dying for a pill: Regulation of online pharmaceutical sales” by Zahra Ahmed (Solicitors Journal, March 2022 edition).

The growth of online pharmacies and other forms of ‘distance selling’ pharmacies has surged exponentially in recent years. The covid-19 pandemic further accelerated the online pharmacy sector’s expansion to new levels, with increased demand for distance selling of medications. In December 2019, following an inquest into the death of 22-year-old Gemma MacDonald, who died of a mixed drug overdose after buying from two companies, a coroner raised concerns about the lack of rigorous checks and the availability of large amounts of drugs online.

The article aims to explore current issues from a regulatory and professional disciplinary perspective. The article can be read on the Solicitors Journal website, here.