Uzma also prosecutes for local authorities and has successfully prosecuted and defended matters of benefit fraud, environmental offences, health and safety offences and consumer protection offences.
She is also instructed to appeal benefit decisions, education admissions decisions and appears regularly before tribunals in the UK.
She has represented clients appealing licensing decisions, including taxi licences, alcohol licences and firearms licences.
Mental Health
Uzma has a busy mental health practice and appears regularly before mental health tribunals representing patients. She advises and represents people who have been made subject to the compulsory powers under the Mental Health Act 1983, whether it be detention in hospital or being made subject to a Community Treatment Order or Conditional Discharge.
She is very experienced at successfully representing detained patients in the First-Tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal.