Khatija Hafesji
Khatija was called to the Bar in 2016 and has a broad and busy practice spanning public and administrative law, including human rights, data protection, competition and procurement.
She has acted in a number of high-profile cases in recent years, including successfully defending the Department of Health and Social Care in the PPE and antibody testing procurement challenges brought by the Good Law Project. For Claimants, acting for Article 39 she successfully challenged the Department for Education’s Covid-19 Regulations affecting children in care. In the humans rights arena, she has acted for the joint interveners in the Telegram v Russia case before the ECtHR.
Khatija is ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners across three practice areas (Administrative Law and Human Rights, Community Care and Procurement):
“She is fantastic; she’s thorough in everything that she does, extremely knowledgeable and an impressive advocate.” - Chambers UK, 2023
“She is really impressive; clearly very hard-working, on top of the subject matter and has very good client skills.” – Chambers UK 2023