Tahir Khan QC

Tahir Khan QC

  • Year of Call: 1986
  • Recorder: 2004
  • QC: 2011
  • LL.B (Hons), Liverpool Polytechnic
    Lincoln’s Inn
Practice

Tahir Khan QC is a senior criminal practitioner, having been called to the bar in 1986 and taken silk in the Lord Chancellor's list in 2011. He is only the second Muslim barrister to have been appointed QC outside of London.

He undertakes the most serious criminal defence and prosecution cases (those cases in which the gravity and complexity of the offence warrants the services of Queen's Counsel) as well as undertaking regulatory work, prosecuting and defending corporate defendants including well-known Public Limited Companies accused of breaching Environmental Legislation and Fire Safety Regulations.

Tahir's main area of specialism is in serious crime, with an emphasis on serious drugs prosecutions (most of which were undertaken for HM Revenue & Customs), complex multi-million pound frauds and the most serious cases of violence including gangland shootings, manslaughter cases and murder.

 

Tahir Khan QC - a Direct Access Barrister

 

Tahir Khan QC is able to accept Direct Access work under the Bar Public Access Scheme. For more information in relation to the scheme or to make a booking directly please contact our dedicated Criminal Clerking Team on the details provided opposite.

 

Professional Memberships

 

Criminal Bar Association

 

Notable Cases

 

2012

Tahir Khan QC defended in a widely-reported trial of a preacher accused of historic rapes and other crimes against six different victims, and a woman in a "slow-burn provocation" murder trial in which she was accused of setting her adulterous husband on fire after pouring petrol on him and igniting it. He also prosecuted a double murder trial reported in the national media ("The Tong Murders").

2011

Tahir defended a man accused of murdering his girlfriend by strangulation, a man accused of murder by beating his disabled victim to death, and another Defendant in a multi-million pound mortgage fraud.

2010

Tahir Khan defended a man accused of child abduction, another accused of kidnapping a barrister's wife and baby daughter, and appeared for the defence in a multi-million pund bank fraud case. He also prosecuted a "gangland" shooting.

 

Other Languages

 

Punjabi

Urdu