Ruba Huleihel
Ruba is a specialist criminal barrister. She acts for both prosecution and defence and has appeared in the Crown Court, the Magistrates’ Court, the Youth Court and Court Martial.
Previously, she was a criminal defence paralegal at a busy South London firm for 18 moths. Simultaneously, Ruba completed an LLM in International Law. Inspired by her casework, she wrote her dissertation on extradition and the right to a fair trial.
Prior to commencing pupillage Ruba was a legal advisor at Harrow Law Centre working with young people and parents on Stop and Search rights, county lines exploitation, education law, and community care law. Alongside this role, she was a support worker to Syrian refugees at Single Homelessness Project.
While on the Bar course Ruba was a volunteer advocate in school exclusion hearings with Communities Empowerment Network and taught debate in HMPs Wandsworth, Isis and Pentonville with Gray’s Inn-Vocalise. Before the Bar course, she worked as a community care paralegal at GT Stewart Solicitors, and as an immigration trainee-caseworker at Westkin Associates.
Before studying law, Ruba co-founded an ethical fashion brand employing women facing barriers to work. She has also worked with Seeds of Peace and Solutions-not-Sides, conflict resolution charities focusing on the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.