of Law in Guildford. In 1994 he married Saadiya Ahmed, who was also a solicitor. Also in 1994, Khan became a trainee solicitor at a firm of solicitors called Christian Fisher; the firm undertook mainly legal aid cases. The partners were Michael Fisher and Louise Christian. Khan became a partner at the firm in 1997, and like Christian, specialised in human rights law. When Fisher left in 2002, the firm was renamed Christian Khan. Khan left the firm in 2004, after he became the prospective Labour candidate for the Tooting parliamentary constituency. During his legal career, he acted in actions against employment and discrimination law, judicial reviews, inquests, the police, and crime, and was involved in cases including the following: Bubbins vs The United Kingdom (European Court of Human Rights – shooting of an unarmed individual by police marksmen) HSU and Thompson v Met Police (wrongful arrest/police damages) Reeves v Met Police (duty of care to prisoners) Murray v CAB (discrimination) Ahmed v University of Oxford (racial discrimination against a student) Dr Jadhav v Secretary of State for Health (racial discrimination in the employment of Indian doctors by the health service) CI Logan v Met Police (racial discrimination) Supt Dizaei v Met Police (police damages, discrimination) Inquest into the death of David Rocky Bennett (use of restraints) Lead solicitor on Mayday demonstration 2001 test case litigation (Human Rights Act) Farrakhan v Home Secretary (Human Rights Act): in 2001, Khan represented the American Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in the High Court and overturned a ban on him entering the United Kingdom, first imposed in 1986. The government subsequently won on appeal. In February 2000, Khan represented a group of Kurdish actors who were arrested by Metropolitan Police during a rehearsal of the Harold Pinter play Mountain Language, securing £150,000 in damages for the group for their wrongful arrest and the trauma caused by the arrest. McDowell and Taylor v Met Police: Leroy McDowell and Wayne Taylor successfully sued the Metropolitan Police for assault and false imprisonment. Represented Maajid Nawaz, Reza Pankhurst and Ian Nisbet in Egyptian court when they were arrested on charges of trying to revive Hizb ut-Tahrir. Parliamentary career First term: 2005–2010 Before entering Parliament, Khan represented Tooting as a councillor on Wandsworth Council from 1994 to 2006, and was granted the title of Honorary Alderman of Wandsworth upon his retirement from local politics. In 2003, Tooting