For institutions
Courts, professional advisers, organisations and public bodies increasingly meet Muslim family, business and finance questions in their own work. Familiarity helps. What the work needs is precision: what the Islamic principle is, how it sits with English law, and what follows in practice. LawFiq provides that input.
Who this is for
Whose clients live in both frameworks, and who need the Islamic-principles dimension of a matter analysed rather than guessed at.
Who need an opinion on what a nikah, a mahr, a talaq, a Faraid distribution or a partnership arrangement means in its own terms, prepared to the standard the forum requires.
Whose staff encounter Muslim family and business contexts in casework, and who want consistent understanding across a service.
Who advise their own communities and want their guidance to be sound in principle and aware of English law.
Working on matters with a foot in two jurisdictions, who need the principles explained in the terms and register of both settings.
Expert opinion and specialist input
Written or oral analysis of what an Islamic principle is and how it applies, prepared with an awareness of the English-law setting in which the question is being asked.
Where a court or tribunal needs an opinion on a point of Islamic principle, LawFiq’s scholars can prepare one to the standard and in the form the instructing party requires. We describe a capability, not a track record, and we claim no court appointment. Whether an opinion is admissible, and how it is instructed, is a matter for the instructing party and the forum.
Standards and integration
Many institutions want more than an answer to a single question. They want staff who recognise the issues early, a consistent vocabulary across a service, and governance that understands how a Muslim client’s obligations interact with the institution’s own rules. LawFiq works with organisations on exactly that: shared terminology, practice notes, and contributions to internal guidance and to frameworks or codes as they develop.
LawFiq is not a regulator and does not seek to be one. It does not accredit, license or oversee anyone. What it offers is understanding and good practice, contributed to the bodies that own the decisions.
Cross-border and international
LawFiq is based in London and works primarily in the United Kingdom. Its team’s scholarship and languages reach into Gulf and wider Arab contexts, which matters when a matter has a foot in both: a family with assets in two jurisdictions, a business with Gulf partners, a professional advising a client whose obligations were formed elsewhere.
We have no offices outside the UK. Where a question turns on the law of another country, it needs a lawyer qualified there. Our contribution is the Islamic-principles dimension, the terminology, and the practical bridge between the two settings.
Who does the work
Islamic Board
A scholar of Shariah, Fiqh and Usul: a graduate of the Shariah College of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, with Master’s study in Fiqh and Usul and doctoral study ongoing. Islamic economics, AAOIFI standards and the four Sunni schools.
Academic Board
PhD in Islamic Law, postdoctoral work at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor in Shariah and Law. Islamic law, Muslim family law and women’s rights.
Consultant Solicitor
An SRA-regulated solicitor associated with LawFiq, supporting matters that require regulated legal input.
Each enquiry is scoped by LawFiq’s founder, Owais Qarni, with the member of the team whose expertise it needs. About LawFiq.
How an institutional enquiry works
Tell us the question, who needs the answer, in what form, and by when. Email is usually simplest.
We say whether LawFiq can help, who would do the work, and on what terms. If the question needs someone else, we say that too.
Analysis, opinion, practice note or training, prepared by the relevant member of the team and reviewed before it leaves.
In the form and language agreed, with follow-up where the question develops.
LawFiq is a UK advisory company. It is not a firm of solicitors and is not itself regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Where regulated legal services are required, these are provided by our partner SRA-regulated law firm. LawFiq does not give financial advice or arrange investments, and is not a regulator, an accreditation body or a standards body.
Institutional enquiries
We will tell you whether it is one we can answer, who would answer it, and how.
Or email info@lawfiq.com
