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Yasmin
Waljee OBE
Of Counsel, London
yasmin.waljee@hoganlovells.com
Yasmin Waljee is the firm's International Pro Bono Manager. Her appointment in 1997 as a legally qualified, full time pro bono manager was the first of its kind in Europe.
Yasmin has been key to establishing and embedding a pro bono culture within the legacy firm. The objective then, and now, is to deliver an outstanding pro bono service to charities, individuals and social enterprises in need who would not otherwise afford such advice. Yasmin helped the firm achieve this by designing and implementing pro bono projects which focus the firm's specialist commercial legal expertise to produce a measurable outcome nationally and internationally.
Yasmin is an international human rights lawyer and has advised on issues relating to compensation for victims of crime and terrorism including the July 7 bombing victims, the right to life and regularly works on public policy issues in this area.
Yasmin has also represented prisoners facing the death penalty at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the constitutional court of the Caribbean, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. She has experience advising on applications to the international and regional human rights bodies and has advised on applications using the UN thematic mechanisms.
Yasmin also has a strong interest in business and human rights as regularly participates in business and NGO dialogues and consultations in this area.
Yasmin is part of the firm's Citizenship panel and manages the worldwide giving initiative and community investment programme with members of the corporate responsibility and citizenship team.
Yasmin received an award for the most inspirational women of the year. Daily Mail, 2008, 50 most influential women in the law 2007; finalist Asian Woman of the Year 2005 and Woman Solicitor of the Year 2000, The Times.
In 2010 Yasmin was awarded an OBE in the HM Queen's New Year Honours list.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Advised and represented the campaign to secure UK legislative provision which introduced a statutory compensation scheme for British victims of terrorism abroad.
- Successfully secured commutation for 33 prisoners on death row in Trinidad and Tobago at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
"The Role and Responsibilitieys of the Business Lawyer" New Academy Review, Cambridge University Press, 2004
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