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Posted by Neil Rose
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and five government department have obtained a restraint order against a law student who has brought multiple employment claims against them.
Zakir Khan has brought 42 employment tribunal claims since 2017, including 13 against the SRA, seven against various large law firms, six against the Ministry of Justice and five against the Crown Prosecution Service.
Her Honour Judge Emma Kelly in Birmingham said there was no evidence that any have succeeded and many have been struck out, although the claimants said the defendant had indicated that two law firms settled claims with nuisance payments of £700 and £1,000.
Mr Khan, who says he has a law degree and LLM in commercial law, typically alleges a failure by the prospective employer to make reasonable adjustments in relation to job applications he had made or claimed he wanted to make.
He relies on a number of disabilities: ADHD, depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive personality disorder.
The judge said: “The reasonable adjustments the defendant asserts he is entitled to vary from claim to claim but common themes include one or more of: replacing written competency-based application forms with assessed work experience; permitting the defendant to sit a written test to assess hypothetical examples in lieu of demonstrating competencies by already acquired experience; permitting the defendant to bypass a particular stage of the application process; being permitted to engage in post-application correspondence; ignoring grammatical errors in application forms; lowering the minimum competency threshold for jobs; not imposing a word limit on applications; obtaining evidence from an occupation psychologist; providing advance notification of the form of online tests; awarding the defendant higher marks at a particular stage of the application process and, perhaps most optimistically, providing a scholarship for him to undertake the then solicitors’ legal practice course.”
HHJ Kelly was not convinced by Mr Khan’s claim that he would not bring any more claims, as he now has a job at the Office of the Public Guardian and was about to become a father.
He also told the court he planned to fight the claims already issued and pursue them “until the very end”.
He blamed the respondents and judiciary for the problems he had encountered with his cases.
HHJ Kelly said Mr Khan had accepted that his intention could “possibly change”.
She added: “The defendant’s conceded obsession and uncontrollable urges heightens the risk of a change of intention in the future…
“His lack of objectivity and apparent inability to accept judicial decisions heightens the risk of him pursuing totally without merit appeals to the EAT within the extant claims.”
Referring to Mr Khan’s applications to strike out the claim and miscellaneous relief, the judge observed: “He did, however, tell the court he had studied law a long time ago and couldn’t remember much of it.”
She dismissed them all and recorded they were totally without merit.
HHJ Kelly concluded the test for an extended civil restraint order was met.
“The persistent nature of the defendant’s totally without merit claims and applications, coupled with the significant risk of further such claims or applications being filed if unrestrained, means that I am persuaded it is appropriate for the court to exercise its discretion to make a civil restraint order.”
She ordered that for the next three years Mr Khan could not issue or present a claim in the employment tribunal or an appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal without permission of the court, in respect of any job application or application process.
The claim was also brought by the Ministry of Justice, Department of Work and Pensions, Department of Business and Trade, the Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Source: Legal Futures
SRA and others obtain restraint order against law student
13 June 2025Posted by Neil Rose
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and five government department have obtained a restraint order against a law student who has brought multiple employment claims against them.
Zakir Khan has brought 42 employment tribunal claims since 2017, including 13 against the SRA, seven against various large law firms, six against the Ministry of Justice and five against the Crown Prosecution Service.
Her Honour Judge Emma Kelly in Birmingham said there was no evidence that any have succeeded and many have been struck out, although the claimants said the defendant had indicated that two law firms settled claims with nuisance payments of £700 and £1,000.
Mr Khan, who says he has a law degree and LLM in commercial law, typically alleges a failure by the prospective employer to make reasonable adjustments in relation to job applications he had made or claimed he wanted to make.
He relies on a number of disabilities: ADHD, depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive personality disorder.
The judge said: “The reasonable adjustments the defendant asserts he is entitled to vary from claim to claim but common themes include one or more of: replacing written competency-based application forms with assessed work experience; permitting the defendant to sit a written test to assess hypothetical examples in lieu of demonstrating competencies by already acquired experience; permitting the defendant to bypass a particular stage of the application process; being permitted to engage in post-application correspondence; ignoring grammatical errors in application forms; lowering the minimum competency threshold for jobs; not imposing a word limit on applications; obtaining evidence from an occupation psychologist; providing advance notification of the form of online tests; awarding the defendant higher marks at a particular stage of the application process and, perhaps most optimistically, providing a scholarship for him to undertake the then solicitors’ legal practice course.”
HHJ Kelly was not convinced by Mr Khan’s claim that he would not bring any more claims, as he now has a job at the Office of the Public Guardian and was about to become a father.
He also told the court he planned to fight the claims already issued and pursue them “until the very end”.
He blamed the respondents and judiciary for the problems he had encountered with his cases.
HHJ Kelly said Mr Khan had accepted that his intention could “possibly change”.
She added: “The defendant’s conceded obsession and uncontrollable urges heightens the risk of a change of intention in the future…
“His lack of objectivity and apparent inability to accept judicial decisions heightens the risk of him pursuing totally without merit appeals to the EAT within the extant claims.”
Referring to Mr Khan’s applications to strike out the claim and miscellaneous relief, the judge observed: “He did, however, tell the court he had studied law a long time ago and couldn’t remember much of it.”
She dismissed them all and recorded they were totally without merit.
HHJ Kelly concluded the test for an extended civil restraint order was met.
“The persistent nature of the defendant’s totally without merit claims and applications, coupled with the significant risk of further such claims or applications being filed if unrestrained, means that I am persuaded it is appropriate for the court to exercise its discretion to make a civil restraint order.”
She ordered that for the next three years Mr Khan could not issue or present a claim in the employment tribunal or an appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal without permission of the court, in respect of any job application or application process.
The claim was also brought by the Ministry of Justice, Department of Work and Pensions, Department of Business and Trade, the Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Source: Legal Futures
