 Felly, dyna'n ffiam yw i'w blaenau social-mediai i ddim yn ei wneud hynny'n gwneud i'w gwledig hwnnw, ac rydw i ddim yn ddィch yn ei ddweud yr ysgolwyddiant a'r ddweud o'r drwng ac mae'n gweithio sut rydw i'n gwneud y gweithredu nifer o'r amser. Mae'n bwmwr o'r un i'n gwneud o'r ddweud. Rhaid i chi'n gweithru, dyw'n gweithrwydd ar hyn o'r ysgolwyddiant? Rhaid i chi'n gweithredu rhaid i chi, rhaid i chi? Gawd me! Felly, mae yma'r pwn enwedig'r tyfan. Fel ei nhw'n gweithio'r fideo ar tiktok. mae'r bobl yn gwneud o'r Instagram. Mae'n bwysig i'r cyfarbu. Mae'r gobeithio yn digyni. Gwrs ymhylch i'r perlwg. Mae'r bobl wedi'uごfynol yn rydyn. Ydych chi, dhyddoddodd i'w gweithio. Pwysigon weithio at adael? Yn ydych chi'n gwaith o'r gobl angyl огрann. Yn ymdaeth y glöfrwyr i amdain Sometimes you get the prime and proper lawyers who kind of look down at you and they just feel it shatly. They're speaking big words I don't understand. So now I watch your videos and they go, good on you. Does that jeopardise your career though or anything could combat and bite your ass? No, it hasn't up until now, but I've had reports made against me to the authorities because we are governed by the solicitors regulation authority. I'n ei ddweud o'r llaw o'r dweud o'r ddechrau'n gweld yn ychydig ar gyfer gwaith o'r ddweud. I'r ddweud o'r ddechrau'n gweld, ac mae'n ddweud i gael i'r ddweud o'r diolch ar y gweithredu, fod yn ymdami'n ddweud allan. Fy rysyn am yw'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Fy rydyn. Mae'r angen i gyd fel yw'n gweinwch, ond yw'r hyn o'r gwybod o'r unrhyw o'r sefydliad yma i'w gwneud full maen nhw'n gweithio'ch gwaith yma. Yn gynghori, mae'r angen i'w gweithio i'w gweithio'ch gweithio? Fy ffyrdd am Ymgyrch, rwy'n gweithio ar Woolfer Hampton University, na hwn i'w ffyrdd am Ymgyrch, yn cael cael y 40 o'ch 45 o'ch cyfrifau. Felly i'n werth o'n gweithio i'w cyfrifau am ymgyrch. Ac mae'r angen i ddweud, yn ym 2016, rydyn ni wedi gweld y cwmbr angen i ddweud. Ac mae'n gweithio eich cwmbr angen i ddweud. Rydyn ni wedi'n ymddangos i'r ffyrdd am fwy erbyn yn y hwnnw. Yn ymddangos i'r oddi am ymddangos i'r newyddau mwy o'r bai? Yn ymddangos i'r ffyrdd am 5 o ymddangos i ddweud. Mae'r chyfnod, mae'r 4 o'r sysys, mae'r 3 o'r ffyrdd am 5 o'u hwnnw. I still remember school times. I was half that, school mate. I still remember them like it's yesterday. So good upbringing then brothers. If you've all got good jobs, kind of race, big parents. Very good upbringing again. My dad was a wealthy man. He used to be a wholesale milk supplier. He lives in Pakistan now. We retired my father. He lives there, he's chilling. He was encouraged us to study all brothers. A few of us studied and few of us did it basically. What's the background religion? Muslim? Muslim. It's all that kind of, the Muslim community. I believe it's the strongest community in the world. I think that as well. Even the prisons. It's the Muslim gangs that run the prisons. Everybody is the fastest grown religion I believe. Over 2 billion people now. It's a lesson I've got many Muslims. Brothers who I love to bits. Crazy bastard, some of them. Don't follow up 100%. There's many things in religion I agree with. I don't agree with, but that's no doubt to me. That's what we want to choose. The Muslim community is the fastest grown. I've got many Muslim brothers who welcome me with open arms and mums and dads of food. It's amazing. Love me to bits. I say the boys, the sons, who grew up with me when I was younger. Mad, mad. It's mad bastards. Mad, mad people. All welcoming and happy for people though. What I've realised with that is the upbringings of study. Be intelligent but be something. Whether you're becoming doctors or lawyers or top-end. Was that ingrained in you from a very young age? I think it was because of the fact that my parents were not educated. They studied to the extent that they could just... Back home I'm talking about in Pakistan. I'm in Pakistan. I come from Kashmir, Azad Kashmir is called. So that's the free side of the occupied Kashmir. So Kashmir, there's a dispute. It's a disputed territory. I don't know if you know the ins and outs. Pakistan and India, that's what their misunderstandings are over. And there's one part that is disputed. So it's neither theirs or neither India's. And there's one part that is not disputed and that's where I live. That's where we live. That's where from. And my dad probably went to school till he was about 14 years old. Because financially they wasn't very stable at all. My father used to tell me stories about when they never used to have food for days. So that one meal they used to come about, one proper meal was something to look forward to. They never used to have new clothes. For example, you know, Eid or any kind of family celebrations. They never used to have clothes. So they used to wash their old clothes and wear them. And that was like a big thing washing the clothes. So I heard all of that stuff. So my father used to say, listen study otherwise. Do you know? Do you see that Nelina? A lot of dysfunctional families who are missing that father figure. You tend to see a lot of sadness and that's where the anger, the frustration, court life, prison life comes in where they come from broken homes. I think so. Yes, I think it does have a big impact on having a father about. I am very close to my kids and I'm very close to my father. Even up until now when I'm making a big decision, whether it's a business decision or a life decision, I will have to call my dad and ask him if it's the right thing to do. And I am very close with my kids and they tell to talk to me. I'm their best friend. I'm my dad's my best friend if you go. I mean I tell my kids as well. I said, I say to them that you don't need friends. Friends are just friends come and go. If you've got a dad, you've got everything. Yeah, I believe so. Blessings. Blessings. I'm a man dad to have both. You're the most blessed person on the planet because life comes so fast. It's such a fast pace. We take it for granted. We do. We don't realise how special life is, but there's so much mix up when fucking Skull Dugrigg is on in this world that it's hard for people to live their best potential. What was your first-ever job in the court? Your first-ever case. Case, yeah. My first ever, ever case was when I was a trainee solicitor and this is a good story this is because what I did was this. As soon as I got into a law firm, I thought, what do I do now? How do I build a client base? So I went through my phone book and I would write all the numbers down on a sheet of paper and I would call them up and say, hi, it's me, Ahmed. People I know from school, college, university from the local area. I grew up in a place called Aston but I knew everyone, literally everyone there. Because I used to work in my uncle's shop, so people used to come in and out and I used to see everyone. I'm a very talkative person, I'm a friendly person, so I knew everyone. I started phoning everyone on my phone book and telling them I'm working in a law firm. The second day, somebody come through the door and they've told me they were recommended by one of my school friends. So I rang in my book, thanks for that. It was only a possession of a bladed article and now it's a big thing. I still remember the client's name. I've seen the client actually a few years ago and I called him by his name because I remember me. I remember everyone but I only remember him because it's my first case. I remember most of my cases but you can't remember everybody's name sometimes. That was my first ever case. He pleaded guilty and he got a suspended sentence or something. What was the buzz like for you? It was good, you know. I got a bit of a pat on the back from my principal at the time, my boss, so I was happy. Did you have that business mindset straight away? Straight away. You're doing your TikTok and your Instagram but it's a business, an entrepreneurship where you've got to keep raising the bar to then having your own firm. That takes a bit of credit as well. So when you're going through this, was it automatic to try and get your own firm to start up straight away? That was my target straight away. I wanted to build a network and I had a network already, a bit of a network so I wanted to make that come to fruition. So what I did was, like I said, I started phoning everybody and whoever I would see, I would give them a business card. Now I don't carry cards on me anything. I don't carry anything on me now but back then there's nice to go, go for a walk, wherever I go I just have a bunch of cards. So yeah, I had that business mindset from that time and my boss wasn't a good boss basically. He was always doubting me and saying to me, listen, you're not good for nothing. You don't have to speak English properly. You need allocution lessons, allocution lessons and all of that stuff. Was it racist? He was a Pakistani guy. He was a racist but he was a bit, I don't know, he was a bit, you know, of his own ass here, cheeky, I don't know. But anyway, so that was a big motivation for me. So when I left that place, we never left amicably, you see, had a bit of argument with him. So I had to prove that guy wrong. I walked into the firm that I'm in now. So this was a firm that's closing down at that time in 2014. So I spoke to this guy, his name is Morris, Morris Andrews' name is. And I said to him, I want a job. He said, I'm not looking to employ people on winding days, 70 plus at that time because I'm looking to wind down, I'm done. I said to him, look, you don't need to pay me. I'll just, I just want to work. I'll bring my own work, give me a commission and I'll be happy with that. So I started working for him. I started bringing my own work and after a few years, I made him an offer. He wasn't happy with the, he gave me a figure that I wasn't happy with. Anyway, in the end, we shook on a deal. And to be fair, God is my witness. When I shook on that deal, I never had a single penny to my name. It goes back to network. So I shook on the deal. After that, I come out of that room, went on my phone and I knew I had to get his money together now, which I did. And since then, with the help of the Lord, I've been blessed by that man. I've been very blessed. What's the scariest case you've been in? Scariest case, in what way? Just where you've just been nervous about it and worrying. Just where you just feel as a fuck me. Is it scary or does it just feel calm every time you go in? No, sometimes it's... Pressure? There's a lot of pressure from the family's pressure. People's lives man. People's lives man. And one time this happened. This was not... A couple of years ago, I represented someone on a murder case. And it was... The circumstances of the fence were that basically the guy got shot outside his house from a car that was driving by. So they just stopped, paused for a second, shut the guy and drove off. That was the shooting. My client was arrested. He asked for me. I went to the police station. The police officers gave me disclosure. Disclosure is the evidence that the police are going to use in the police station interview against my client. They gave me that. And they were attributing a phone number to my client. They said, this is the phone number. This phone number is involved in the murder. In this way. It was in contact with the shooter throughout the day. And just before the shooting and right after the shooting. Sort of saying that he said the shooting... Conspiracy? Yeah, conspiracy basically. He said to me, look, I was at home at the time. I'm on tag. I'm on a door stop, tag, care for you, door stop, care for you. And the police came in just before they saying that this guy died. They came and checked and I was at home. I didn't go home. I said, no problem. But they're not saying you, man. They're not saying you were there. They're saying you was involved somehow. The police don't have to give you the full, version at the start. They just give you enough to have an interview. So I went into consultation now with that person, with my client. And I said to him, this is the phone number that the police are saying is yours. Is this your phone number? He said, no. This is not my phone number. I said, OK. What's your phone number then? He said, I don't have a phone. I said, who doesn't have a phone in this day and age? Stop lying to me. Because I'm not lying. I don't have a phone. And the police know that I don't have a phone. I go, how do the police know? Because I got attacked in the city centre a few weeks ago and I got robbed. And the police took my phones. Sorry. The people who robbed me took my phones and then I called the police and told them that my phones were being taken so that that will be on record. I said to him, are you 100% sure? He turned around and said, call me uncle. He said, uncle, I'm a million percent sure. I go, well then you're going to go home with me. Now then I'm going to take you home. Because this is the only thing that they got against you. If they've got this number wrong, then you're good to go. Anyway, we're in the police station interview. So me being myself, I wasn't going to just sit there quietly or I didn't want to make him talk as well because sometimes when clients talk they just incriminate themselves for other reasons so if they don't need to talk, they don't need to talk. So I advised him that, I said, let's do a prepaid statement to put the number down and put everything down denying that this is your number and you've got nothing to do with it. End of story. They'll do the investigation, do their homework and after that come back and let you go. I put that down under statement. I said, this number is not mine and I'm not involved basically. So the police officers, both of them looked at it and started smiling. It's like they knew that this was going to come. I thought they're smiling because they think, oh I've got the wrong person. The police officer then turned around and said this phone number was used to call an insurance company to insure a vehicle. Guess who that vehicle is registered to? You. So I turned around and looked and this person who found the insurance company introduced himself as you and gave this phone number. That's one of the reasons we're saying this is your phone number. Secondly, this phone number has called every single member of your family apart from one member. That member is your grandmother and we think that it hasn't called that number because you live with her so you don't need to call her. You can just go to the house. Anyway, I said to the police at the time I was going to stop the interview and he'd speak to my client. I spoke to him and I said, what did you lie to me for? He said, I smoke cannabis. I go, what's that got to do with it? He goes, I forgot. How could you forget that you had a phone? So I had a bit of a falling out with him because it's not about how I felt that I felt I done him a disservice because I shouldn't have put that statement I shouldn't have believed him. But then if I can't believe my own clients who should I believe? Make sure it looks stupid. What's the difference between a lawyer a barrister? A lawyer is a word used to describe either a solicitor or a barrister. So it's the same stuff as a barrister as a lawyer basically? A barrister is a lawyer, a solicitor is a lawyer. So see when you go through your education stuff what's the process, how many years do you need to go to be a lawyer? Is Scotland and England different? It's different lawyer. Different restrictions probably the exactly same in terms of academic qualifications is probably the same but it's different law wise. We can only practice in England and Wales. You have to go to university and do a qualifying law degree for three years. But there are some institutes now that you can complete that in two years. After that you do a legal practice course and then you have to work under someone for about two years and then you are qualified and then you have to work for about three years as a qualified solicitor and then you can go and open your own firm. How many cases have you worked so far? I don't count loads. Over a thousand probably in the last ten years. And you're all over England and Wales? All over England and Wales. What's the longest trial you've worked on? Carlyle probably. Sysim you're going through a trial. How much preparation do you need if it's a big one? If it's a big one it depends. But most cases I'm just saying if it's a big drugs conspiracy if I'm representing a client their role will only be minimal so if there's about ten thousand pages on that case I probably only have to read about five hundred of them. It all depends sometimes I put in minimal effort and got the results. Sometimes I have to put in a bit more effort so it all depends on the case. More serious the more effort I would say. If it's a murder case it's draining because then you see of course the victims photos like the last murder case I did, Clangar convicted. I did the victims photos were basically post mortem photos and they skinned him basically so you could see the inside of his skin gone off. They've skinned him and so they did the post mortem. So you see a lot of stuff in murder cases and then you have the families of the defendant because he's of course in remand. They are very demanding as well so they always want updates and stuff like that. So it's very demanding. How does that affect you when you see photo dead bodies? Some barrister's lawyers are seeing kids being fucking raped and all the dark shit. How do you separate from work to go home to see your own kids? I think you... Can you switch off? You can't really, I think you become immune to it to be fair. It's like a doctor, if a doctor he gets nervous and his hands start shaking when he's about to operate on someone, a surgeon, sorry, that person might die so you have to sort of become immune to it. You have to kill your conscience to a degree I would say. I don't do sex cases to kids ones though. I don't do them ones. They're fucking heavy, aren't they? That's bad. So when did the social media say stuff, what was the idea behind that? Covid. Was that business idea or was it just having fun with it? Just to get out there business, yeah. And free education for people. A lot of people don't know the basics of law. So when I was a kid I didn't know. Yeah, because you always show there's a defence for every offense. Defence for every offense. Which in theory, if you look at it, if you see a solicitor or a lawyer or a barrister, they'll tell you that there's not a defence for every offense because there's some offenses that are strict liability offenses. You either did it or you haven't. But what I say is even if there isn't a defence, for example a possession of a firearm, if it's been found on your person or if it's been found in your vehicle, you'll be charged for that. In law there's no defence for that. But if you go to court and you plead not guilty, you have to put forward an explanation. You have to say something. Why are you not guilty? So that will amount to a defence in the end. So technically there is interiors not, but technically if you look at it there is a defence for every offense. What's the basic stuff? Obviously listen, I was always grew up snitches, get put in ditches, no comment all the way. If you get fucking put in the recop shop, no comment because a lot of people who are in prison, they've spoke their self there. There's too many grasses, too many snitches and they're actually snitching on themself because they're trying to talk their way out of it, which is fucking so silly. What is the basics of listening, wait to your lawyer because a lot of people crumble? So they do. A very big mistake that people make is exactly what you just said, start snitching on themselves and they think that they're going to talk their way out of being arrested or being charged. That's never going to happen. You know that everybody knows that. People I think is the pressure when they get arrested, they get under pressure. That's what they talk. It's all about pressure because if they come, I don't think they will talk. So a lot of people, they start talking whilst they're being arrested. Once the police officer has said, I'm arresting you and cautioned you. No matter what you say to them, they are going to take you to the station and they will interview you. So if you really want to talk, you can talk. In the interview, if you've been advised to talk, there's times that I advise people to talk when they sit down and say, look, they've got the totally wrong man. It's not me. Even then sometimes I would say, you're a prepared statement. So we've got it on record. We're denying it. So if you ever get charged, we are denying it from the outset. Sometimes I would advise people, listen, the evidence is strong. You don't want them to get any more information. No comment is my advice. Sometimes you tell them to talk. It all depends on the circumstances. Have you ever told somebody, listen, you're done banked rights, plead guilty, shorter sentence and have not listened and they've got a bigger sentence? Yes. Yes, they have. Does that happen frequently? Not frequently because I think now it's come to a stage that people, they take my advice seriously, clients do. Sometimes some clients think they're too clever, but most of the clients they take. Not like clever for me to fucking lawyer. Of course, exactly. Another thing that I've seen is prison lawyers. They're not a lot of people who are in prison. They act like lawyers and a lot of my clients who I remind, they say, oh, this guy from this wing said that. Why is he in there for? If he knew something, if he was that clever or he knew about the law, why is he doing inside prison? So, yeah. Sometimes he talks, sometimes he don't. What happened with the guy you talked with, please go in? I told him to, there's loads, it's not just once, just say some people will want to have trials and the defences will be stupid. They think a jury is stupid. A jury is 12 members, upstanding members of the community with no previous convictions and they are mentally able, so they are judging the trial based on the evidence before them, so the prosecution comes with their case first, then the defense comes and then the judge directs them about the law. They're not stupid, so you have to have a plausible explanation at least. You can't just say it wasn't me or they're lying, the police are lying. A lot of people will say the police are lying, they set me up, they made it up and stuff like that. So, in one case, I told a guy to plead guilty, get a lesser sentence, you get a bit of credit. If you want, I can put forward a basis of plea for you like a plea deal so get your sentence reduced. He wasn't having enough here. He would have got six based on my advice, but he got 11 after trial. Do you ever see people going down crying? A lot of people, they have tears in their eyes. I can see their regret straight away. A lot of people think they're big mans, but when they go down, I've seen it, I've seen it for the first time. That's the thing we meant. A lot of people play the act of a clown and a strong man, but they're not. You see them, crombo. Anybody would crumble. No man is ready to do 25 years in prison, no man. Imagine they've done that because you get 25 years for something like murder. Imagine you're going to prison for 25 years. You've not made a single penny because you're going just because you killed somebody, you had a fight, you had a disagreement and you couldn't sort it out. That's how egoistic you are. You had to kill that person and then you're doing 25 years. Your whole life is finished. You've not made a single penny. If you've made money from a crime, but non-financial crimes, murder and stuff like that. So there's a lot of people in there that are regretting what they've done. The majority of people have some remorse, not the mo. Most of them do. When they do that courses and stuff, they realise how sometimes those short bad decisions can change their whole life in a lot of people's lives. I don't think there's anybody that I've met till this day that is involved in a murder case or a serious violence case that actually wanted to hurt someone that bad. There's only one person I've met that's it. She'll tell you what that person said to me. He stabbed the guy about 19 times while sitting on top of him and the guy survived with a miracle, you know. His death wasn't written. The Lord wanted him to live. That's all he was. So I've gone to see this guy and said, God, at least he's attempted murder, he turned around and said, well, when I'm going to be inside, I will know at the back of my head that guy is breathing still. That's going to hurt me more. I thought he was going to say, okay then. But, yeah. Have you ever had anyone come in and muddaw straight away of the almost pleaded innocent? They won't. Please, no. I don't know. They haven't. No one's admitted like, yeah, I actually did it. Sometimes people have said, yes, I did stab the guy, but he had the knife on him. This is the case. I'm talking about a scenario in a case. He had the knife on him. He came to me with the knife. I managed to disarm him. We were in a tussle. The knife. The knife was inserted into his chest. I didn't know it was going to pierce his heart. He bled to death. So that's the scenario I've been in before. The clients have been in. What makes a good lawyer? A good lawyer looks at the evidence and explains the evidence, the strengths and the weaknesses to his client properly. Doesn't hide behind big words. Has good communication skills so keeps the client updated and reassures the client. Although sometimes you have to be realistic, but we're dealing with grown men 29.9% of the times clients are grown men. So you have to be realistic with them. Don't sugarcoat anything. I've seen a lot of people, a lot of lawyers sugarcoat. I can do this for you. When she is the fan, they know where to be seen. I can still go and see clients that I've represented, that I've been convicted. I've got big sentences. I can't change the evidence. That's not my job. I've got evidence. I'm still in contact with people who are saving life imprisonment. They call me now and chat to them so you have good communication skills. Has anybody ever tried to put it on you, threaten you? I made a video once when I'm speaking about a client of mine. It was a murder trial where a client of mine was the only one who got acquitted of the murder, but he got convicted of the manslaughter. I made a video about that. Just published my result. Someone, of course, never liked it. I started getting phone calls because the victim in that case was a young lad. Unfortunately, of course, I don't encourage people to go and do crime or people to go have knives. I discourage that on a huge scale. I even spoke against drug dealing and all that stuff because I've got my own kids. I like to see other people's kids doing that stuff. It's not good. It's not pleasing. They found me and they were threatening me. This is going to happen. This is going to happen. So I decided to tell them, listen, do one. Then the second or third phone call, you need to delete that video. I go and delete my video. That's my TikTok, my Instagram. No one's going to tell me what to do on it. I've not said no names. I've not said nothing. All I said is this is a widely reported case. I'm not going to delete it because if I deleted that video, people would start phoning me for every video I'm making. So I didn't do it. You've got to stand your ground. See when you're going through all that then. What's the rules and regulations with the social media side of things of doing stuff like that? Obviously I'm not mentioning names and what cases they are, but you must be close to the bone when you're doing those videos. I think sometimes you can say that, but as long as I'm not inciting any criminal behaviour, I can't advertise back I think about 36, 37 years ago there was no advertising, but since then, they've bought solicitors can advertise. So I'm not doing nothing wrong. As long as the clients are happy, sometimes you must have seen my videos, they have clients sitting next to me. So if somebody's got a good result, I ask all my clients if anybody got a good result, I ask them to come. A lot of them don't because they don't want to be seen. But a lot of them come. So as long as I'm not doing anything wrong, I can say whatever I want and I'm not directly advising anyone to do anything, I'm giving them scenarios in my cases to get what I mean. I'm simply saying my client was charged with this, we put this defence forward and he got found not guilty if that's what I'm talking about. So I'm not saying nothing wrong. What's your most viewed video? Probably about 2 million. What did you say? 220 kilos of class A drugs. That's what my client was charged with. And today he was found not guilty after pleading is innocent to the NCA at the police station stage and now at the crown court. Today at Birmingham crown court he was found not guilty remembered as a defence for every fence. See when you go through all that and do your videos are you planning them or are you just off the cuff? Off the cuff. So the basics that people need to know so if the coppers coming back in the day when we were driving in the streets of Glasgow they used to pull us all the time but now you see videos of people telling them to fuck off and you can't pull me off. We couldn't do that. So let's say the coppers pull you over obviously you see people now saying I'm being detained. If I've done anything they say no, they're just driving away. How legit is that? Because if we'd done that back in the day they would just chase us. See look one thing the police don't like I've got nothing against the police by the way. I've got nothing against the police I actually love the police because if something was to happen to my family I'll be the first person to call them if I was getting burgled or rubbed. Once if you are stopped by the police please and they you're not obliged to answer any questions unless it's you're a risk to national security and stuff like that which is extreme. We're talking about a normal stop and search here so you've just been stopped. They can ask you if he's a routine check they will ask you for your car insurance and stuff like that. Once you've given them that you ask them if you're free to go you can't or you are not obliged to answer any further questions so if they start asking you about where you're going what you're doing in this area who's with you, who you're going to see you don't need to answer all of that. Once you've given them what they require then you can go but I would ask everybody to be cooperative and calm because the police do have powers all they need to say is I need to set you for prevention of a crime I feel or I can smell cannabis in the car or I feel a drug dealer's taking place done. They feel it, they can do it so just be calm and cooperative they're human beings, if you're nice to them they'll let you go on it. People are on air for it as well where they feel as if they're trying to don't pull me over, don't talk to me you can't ask that. You can get frustrated with these videos you can see videos and the person is acting like a dick as well some couples out there that are practicing trying infuriate of course, I've got police officer friends they're not all bad there are very bad police officers I'm doing a trial right now and he involves a police sergeant an ex police sergeant and he's giving evidence right now and he's describing how he was treated in the workplace by other police officers, racist remarks and all sorts of Asian lad so they're not all bad and like he said, some of these guys behind the camera they're acting like dicks so what do you expect the police officer to do so be nice to the humans as well and they're doing a job, they're not doing nothing wrong by just pulling you into a routine job if somebody's giving you attitude, give a bit of attitude back for some things they can't imbuse up power just like anybody that's what I just said, all they need to say is about cannabis what about for warrants because coming through your door they can't come in your house unless they've got a warrant, is that 100% legit they have to have a warrant because they always ask can I come in they do, they have to have a warrant and that warrant has to be specific to what they're looking for so if they are looking for example for you here they are not going to search inside a handbag or inside the washing machine for example, you get what I'm trying to say they have to be specific so if they're looking for something if they're looking for firearms for example and they take a shitload of your money when they come here they have to give that money back to you because that warrant was only specific for the firearms you have three months to challenge warrants as well so if somebody gets raided they have three months to judicially review that warrant a judge can review that warrant and check if it's correct or not and that's done obviously by going to court and stuff but the main thing is it has to be specific to what they're looking for Who do you think the law in the UK, do you think the system is good or do you think it's flawed the system in the UK prison system the prison or the law the demands here in sentences are not too bad compared to America where people get 150 years you can bond with a man for 5 and 6 years it's fucking crazy we have the time limits here don't we so when you are arrested I think it's a year here now it used to be in Scotland different it used to be about 100 it's 120 days and then they changed that again no that was four months but they changed that again sometimes I think they can hold you for a year I wonder man I'm not sure I've not been in jail in many years of course you don't need but you know what to come to if you're looking for it but yeah oh change and here in England because in Scotland you get a visit every day is this the same for England I don't know how the visit system works I'm not too clued on about the actual prison system but in terms of the judicial system you have custody time limits and you have six months from the date that you are charged to have a trial that's a year in Glasgow they can hold they can drop your papers of the year on the day but if you don't the case gets through out oh ok ok it's like that but here it's a bit different and the CPS can sometimes apply for extensions which they tend to get if they've been expeditious and they've done everything correctly and it's not because of their mistake or their fault that the case is being adjourned then it's quite easy for them during Covid a lot of people with custody time limits were getting extended recently baristers were striking because of criminal legal aid because of that a lot of cases were getting adjourned and a lot of custody time limits were getting extended as well Did they record the interviews in England? Yeah Some interviews are with your camera When did they choose when and not to because I've seen some fucking serial colours or bad shit and they're recording us Sometimes they do it because they want to look at your body language they've probably got somebody sitting there looking at your body language The last case that I had recorded was last year's a terrorism case and they recorded my consultation not my consultation with my client but my consultation with the police officers and they recorded, video recorded the whole interview so sometimes they do something I think more serious offences they do for you That's what it could be by the time reaching stuff looking at that See when you do your videos Has anybody ever came forward and said look, fucking calm it down a bit or is everybody okay with it Some people do a lot of people talk bad about me I had a barister on and you messaged me with big Tony and he was saying there's a guy on fucking tiktok and he's fucking he's messaged me because I've never seen many people who does it because you're out there so you're like a salesman it's like a salesperson you're there with nice suits, glasses, big car nice watch but it's fucking business and it's got your name out there he has it on a podcast now you have to market yourself you can't market yourself, who are you going to market you know you have to market yourself a lot of people talk bad but the thing is, I think they're just jealous I think they're just haters, I'll be honest with you straight up the thing is, I'm quite young in this profession as a lawyer I've been in this business for about 10 years but I think I'm the most recognised in the whole of UK right now lawyer wise and my fame is very busy so a lot of people are jealous so they do say stuff that barrister was basically saying that I'm promising all sorts of stuff to people but I've never promised anything I've actually made a video of a role play video where I get a phone call and the clients asking me the potential clients asking me can you guarantee me a win I said no, I can't guarantee no wins but what the team can guarantee you is we will leave no stones untied in the preparation of your case and that's the only guarantee I can give you other than that I can't give you no guarantees the only guarantee you got in life is death I can guarantee nothing so that guy was saying I'm promising stuff I'm not promising anything to anybody come on is there anybody else doing what you're doing with social media just now who's working on law some people are trying copying you now what is the format something anyway if somebody copies you appreciation, I think they must appreciate me it's the highest format inspiration, I don't know so see when you're doing your videos then how has business been since they've all been released through the roof, more clients yeah a lot more inquiries I would say some people just call just to speak to me I'll be honest with you, just to have a chat with me but because of the length in a case concluding and I'm getting a lot of new clients I would say yes I'm getting a lot of new clients because a lot of people don't know what to do when they get arrested, they don't know what happens, they don't know that they can call a lawyer and they can call a lawyer free of charge at the police station some people they think that they need to pay and that's the only time somebody will come and represent him that's the misconception people have in the UK that's one thing good about the UK system legal aid, so you can be a young lad, no job and you can get potentially me representing you if you're up for a big serious case do you pick and choose your clients now myself personally yes I like to deal with about 10 to 15 cases a year myself personally but I've got a team that's 15 of us 10-15 cases a year one case near enough a month, one or two that's fucking alright innit that's alright living a good life bro who's Blue Lamborghini was that mine I need to become a lawyer bro I'm doing it wrong in this podcast game mate you're doing well mate, you're probably making more money than me I'm just smashing it to be fair mate but you enjoy that do you enjoy law I love it you know the people take you serious but for the videos you're doing as well you're up there with people going he's good at his job he's all that I don't know about the lawyers I don't really get along with much lawyers I think most of them don't like me but I don't get time to basically socialise anyway and I like to not be around negative people or drama but a lot of people even before the social media stuff I was doing cases and I was doing big cases it's I think it's where I was bought up like I said I was very well known and just by being nice and friendly so when I bought up a place called Aston a lot of crime a lot of criminals, potential criminals so I knew everybody so when I got into the law game everybody started using me and everybody where the mouth got around you get one result and 10 people talk about it you're bound to get another case out of that that's how it works that's how life works isn't it you get good results, you provide a good service more people are going to come to you nobody is coming to me just by seeing a video they have to do the research so sometimes people look at my videos but then I'll get a phone call by somebody who knows me personally and they say this guy wants your number blah blah blah he's asked me and I recommended you then they'll follow me, slide that as well so a lot of people get hold of me and whenever they find somebody who knows me and then they'll come as well for example if you now are getting done for me that I just say you're not just going to take what I'm saying by face value, you will need a bit of research background research so I've got history, I've been getting good results you enjoy being a lawyer? I love it I love my job, I wouldn't change it I would never change it the best feeling ever better than sex is basically getting those two words, not guilty at the end of a big trial that you worked hard on hard work pays off I can't describe it, it's the best feeling ever working on a big trial how much preparation goes into it it depends how long the trial is and it all depends on for example the terrorism case I'm doing right now basically it's about 400,000 pages of electronic material laptops, phones, everything so I'm having to go through all of that and a lot of legal visits every week I'm going to see the client because he could get life imprisonment so the more sentence the client is potentially facing the more preparation and time that he requires and he actually deserves to be faced his life isn't it sometimes the thing is I say this to clients as well, it's not about how much times I'm coming to see you I've seen you, you've given me instructions I don't need anything else after you now now let me do my work properly when I've got no one to stay with me in the office or in my house me seeing you all the time is not going to win your case me looking for ways to win your case when I'm in the right frame of mind is going to help you so sometimes it's not about babysitting as well what about the jury, do you look at juries and see who can potentially sway your way or is it just a case of we do yeah, I think all lawyers do that must do that say look at that, that guy looks okay but you can never read a jury, you can't read a jury because you don't know what they're thinking in their head sometimes I've looked at juries and thought to myself it looks like a tough one and it's been an agility what's the hardest thing about being a lawyer? hardest thing I think being a busy lawyer is to manage your case Lord and you're never going to make everybody happy and you're never going to get the desired result on every single case that you do so you have to come you have to face the fact that you're not going to win everything and you're not going to make everyone happy so pleasing everybody I've never been after that anyway but the hardest thing probably is to manage the case Lord and probably, you know when people get convicted to sit with them after they've been convicted and now they're looking at 25 years in prison don't know what to say to them do they ever blame you? no nobody's ever blamed me to be fair which is a good thing because they see the effort don't they and they know I can't change the evidence the prosecution are bringing the case it's not me isn't it do you know sometimes that they're fucked? I've told people let me tell you a quick story I told somebody to plead guilty on a case once back in 2017 it could have been 16 as well 16 I think it was 2016 sorry I told that guy to plead guilty on a case it was a section 18 case nasty section 18 domestic violent related as well very bad injuries I advised him I go the evidence is strong they're saying it's you why would they say anyway you should plead guilty me and my barrister we both sat with him and he said look we feel that enter a guilty plea trying to get a lesser sentence he went and had a trial he went as well the barrister went as well we had a trial he got found not guilty after the trial he comes up to me and he said I don't know how that's happened but I have to thank you and I have to thank the Lord Tion ran and says I want to be a lawyer will you give me a job before I get the qualifications I thought he was chatting it I said of course I will fast forward a couple of years he's going to qualify as a solicitor in the next 6 months that's good man do you have a look at people when you see the broken souls where you think there's no chance of them ever doing anything with their life you see a lot of people in courts and it's sad to think it's not as if they belong there but you just know that's they've chosen their life there are people like that in my profession I mean a lot of people you know and there's some people and you look at them this guy is not a criminal man what's he doing here some people I think is peer pressure when they get involved some people they do it for financial for a financial gain some people do it for that clout and that status thing that fame there's a lot of people that do it for different reasons but I see them all I've seen people I've seen females giving birth inside prison I've seen female drug dealers I've seen female killers I represented a woman once she killed her husband all sorts you don't you meet everyone who's it better to what or if the females are the male males I think no I'm not being sexist or anything of course I understand and plus they're men and so I can be myself you know to an extent of course with them but with females sometimes I've got female staff as members as well but male clients all the better to work with them female clients why is it a female murderer that's a lesser sentence than a male murderer every female I've had on I've always got lesser sentences because maybe it's abuse from the husband that's what all comes from abuse of partner period of abuse provocation and women generally won't go and try to plan to murder somebody it was most likely heat of the moment I've not come across the planned murder yet it's always at the heat of the moment I don't know have you come across a woman's shoe I've not come across a woman's shoe Linda Carver she was a bank robber mad bastard mate they called her the black widow every husband she was in her life was here and murdered the life had off she was actually convicted of murder where was she from? London wrote the book the black widow I'm still friends with Linda mad bastard but she tells you to be home at 8 o'clock from the pub mate you're home at 5 that's the kind of woman mate you know not to fuck around there's some women more dangerous than the male look at that Queen of the South what's her name? from Colombia what's the least thing you can ever get charged with what's the smallest thing you can get charged with smallest thing probably possession of a cannabis or something or financial penalty breach of peace shouting in the street why are they even charges? I don't know some guy got charged with breach of peace at a Liverpool game he was something about 97 or something I think because 1997 something happened yeah and I think he wrote not enough or not enough 97 but the guy he'll get fucking done because it was a house brother's ass that I found I told later on yeah so there's 97 people passed away but he'll get fucking done that's heavy and for anybody who's even put that on his top was just as bad a grown man that was the man you and man city game yeah I'm not into football but when I was saying that I thought that was a bit bad you got charged with breach of peace or something he'll get done he'll go to prison for that yeah social media went off it's nothing understandably man definitely man you don't make fun of the dead especially something as tragic as that what's the worst charge? murder obviously yeah yeah it's child fucking pedophilia a disgusting of 10 cases away before involving that even though I'm not one to judge whether somebody is guilty or not but I don't want to look through all of that stuff and defend someone who's a fucking sex case yeah as a father yeah as a father yeah you'd fucking get it they can't go even though you're defending on that do you ever get questions from the corpus with clients like can ever come to you never? no no that's what I'm saying that's what I'm very outspoken I say whatever I want not whatever I want within the law within the remits of the law even when I go to court I can talk a lot of people are scared a lawyer are scared to say certain things in court because the judge will have a go at them so what is the judge not going to lock you up the way it's going to happen is going to send a client to prison for a couple more days but so what is there certain judges you like working with or being in the same courtroom with because you know the judges and lords are they're ruthless and they're different animals aren't they some of them are very nice some of them are depends some of them have had personal experiences with a judge who's daughter died of a drug overdose so what do you think he would do when he gets a drug deal in front of him because the people don't forget they imagine somebody's had a family member killed and there you go I got six months for driving while disqualified there you go I was on the bus to Berlin at 10 in the morning fucking stupid charge six months for nothing driving while disqualified I think it was a further fourth time they were cracking right down on it then you done that though yeah it was years ago 15 years ago long time mate time goes quick where do you go with the future where do you see yourself I want to do this for a few more years I'll do a lot of the business ventures as well I'm getting into a few more ventures in Pakistan and over here as well just properties and stuff I want to actually pack it up after a couple of years because like I said financially very good you have to be good at your job to make money any job you have to be good at otherwise you're not going to make money it's not going to just fall on your lap you have to wear a card financially it's very draining after a couple of years I do want to pack it up and do something else sorry because you see people working to their 60s and 70s you just love it that much I know but what's the point I know people but they don't their response is what else do we do do we say a home all day could you become a judge or a lord yes yes you have to be a practising solicitor for 10 years I've only been doing it for nine qualified so after next year I can do my judge course and do my exams and it's not that difficult what's your best memory of being a lawyer my first not guilty plea on a big case where it was a conspiracy to murder nine people were on that case just my client got fined not guilty and I've got a good relationship with that client now and he keeps phoning me sometimes after he's bought a house recently he phoned me, he had a kid he phoned me and he said look this wouldn't have been possible without you man good friend of mine what's your worst experience worst experience was probably that case I spoke about where I should have just not done the prepared statement on that murder case where the client lied to me because at night then I couldn't sleep I couldn't sleep and I kept mentioning it to my wife she turned around and said look you don't kill yourself over here you did that because he lied I said okay he lied to me but I shouldn't have believed him that's my mistake so beat it down as you go did they ever catch him with the phone no but they could attribute it to him but could they still prove that it was his phone or have they used it they have so at court I had to give that case up basically then but at court the prosecutor can now go to the jury and say to the jury that this guy has already lied once in the police station interview what makes you think he's not lying now so imagine that being said to a jury member so what is that beyond reasonable doubt beyond reasonable doubt the jury have to be sure beyond reasonable doubt so that basically means this I describe it two ways very easy so you've got a glass of water here the prosecution have to make the jury sure so the glass so the glass of water has to be clear average job is simply to muddy those waters a little bit of mud and that's doubt done has to be not guilty you have to be 100% sure another example who wants to be a millionaire you're on the million dollar or million pound question now but you've got your three lifelines the question you think you know that question 99.9% sure that you know that question but you've got a lifeline so you've said okay I'll just phone a friend just to get that 100% sure that's not guilty what's it like doing the final speech or the final statement, would you recall that closing speech closing speech is like no I don't do them I don't do them who does them Kings Council or a barrister I said I'm so busy that I cannot be in a courtroom for a month or a two month trial I have to be going in and out because I have to service other clients so when I'm in London I've got a case happening in the Old Bailey right now I made a case so I'll be there I'll sit in there probably for a day the next day I'll go to see a prisoner in Warmouth Scrubs or Wandsworth or Pentonville so I have to be out and about and seeing other clients I can't commit six week or eight week trial in a row I won't be able to do anything else How big is it for a lawyer when they've got mainstream media on the case does that improve obviously social media now you can promote your own stuff but if you're working on a big case and it's on the mainstream does that help with clients of course people see you dealing with big cases and they automatically want to know what's happening in that case and if you get a good result you get more clients out in Scotland used to be trial by media the media used to write shit first before they went to court so people know about Angus all change now that somebody was to print a story about you about a certain case can they use that in court and say look that's they've already said this in the newspapers they can go against them in the case see, jury members are told specifically by the judge to not read up about the case or if something does come up when you're browsing the internet to not take that into context when making your decision to liberate him do you ever get scared doing it no sometimes it's life in your hands and you're just get a bit nervous but then I think to myself it's not me I've not put that person in that situation he's done it himself any funny moments do you ever seen anybody try to run over the fucking no I've seen that on America I've seen it in America but they fuckers just shoot you yeah they will shoot you there here they won't probably shoot you probably just run after you do you ever look at cases that's all over the news and want to work on it yeah of course I do everyone wants to be in high profile cases I'll do anyway how many lawyers in England that's all I just shows you how much fucking crimes going on on it what's the biggest rise in crime you've seen lately biggest rise the encrochat cases what's happening with that because I know this thing in France they're trying to throw it all out but it just puzzles me why people are so raising one those ones I don't get it I say this about normal phones forget the encrophone I say never send send y text message it or make a phone call and do not expect it not to be read by other people or your phone call head by other people. I say that to everyone I talk minimal on the phone I won't send much messages. I'm very careful with my phone just because of my privacy. I'm not doing anything wrong but if you start sending silly messages like that you know I'm sorry but you deserve it to an extent and the encro phones it was a seaver wasn't it so if you own the sever you've got access to everybody's encro so you can know what kind of dealings taken place what what that guy's doing what that guy's doing so even that aspect of it is not safe I would say but what other argument in those cases was that it's Ac o'n fwylaun ysgol, i wneud eu siŵr, yno'r gael, myfwyr o gweithio peithio a'r bwysigau bwysig, oech yn dod wedi'u gweithio'n gwahau a'r cyffredinol i fod hynny, o'n gwahodd a'u'i gweithio ysgol, lle mae'r pwysig wedi cael ei bod ynw eu lle adeiladau cyffredinol taeth arfwylaun, ac ydych chi'ch bod hyrysiau a loes yn unrhyw gyda'r prosesuat yn escorod y peth o'n gwybod. The prosecutor, this is a true case, he happened in Birmingham crime court, the prosecutor actually fell and fainted in court while giving evidence, that's how nervous he was. Sorry, not the prosecutor, the officer, the police officer in charge who ordered the book, they weren't releasing the information you see in the end. The judge at court said no, he stopped the case, it basically means the case cannot go any further, because we were asking, we kept asking, we kept asking. ddau yn cydweithio'n gyfnodd ac yw'r prosesydydau hynny'n ddau'r prosesydydau yn cael ei ddweud a chylywch CCTV wedi'i cyfnodd a wedi'i cydweithio'n cydweithio'n cydweithio'n cydweithio yng Nghymru, maen nhw wedi bod yn ystod y mae'r adegau ym MEDA'r cydweithio'n cydweithio. Mae hwnna ddweud hynny yn gyfrifio'n cydweithio. And because of that CCTV being shredded that person is now in life in prison because he couldn't prove that alibi witness?が manawd When you think like that, how can somebody go out of the way and try to convince people so bad? They say to me, why and how can you defend someone who is guilty first of all, I don't know whether they guilty or not guilty. The courts make that decision. Felly, hwnna arnynt a rhaillio. Rhaillio. Rwy'n arddangos yng Nghymru? Cymru sy'n amlwg yw, mae'r cyfrifiadau? Rha, rha, rha. Rha. At wneud amlwn o'r cyfrifiadau, sef yn gwybod i ddaf i'r cyfrifiadau? Rha, mae'r cyfrifiadau ar y nif�. Mae nhw'n economi'r cyfrifiadau? Nw, mae'n gweithio ddaf. Rha, mae'n gweithio, mae'n preferio yn cael eu blaethau. for being concerned and supplying lots of drugs to just find your phone. Nothing else. No drugs. No money, nothing. That evidence on the phone. Again, done. A lot of people walk into conspiracies and it's all because of their phones. Phone calls of course, everybody knows phone calls. They can do a pattern. If you found me and I found somebody else who gets caught with some drugs, that's a conspiracy. Again, phone calls and text messages and social media gets a lot of people into I think it's Google, I've got Google account, I think it's Google Maps where it shows places that have been like 10 years ago since I've had the Google Maps, so they know where you are, they know everything about you, you've been heavily watched, it's like the big brother race in England, they watch everything. What would you, what advice would you give to anybody that's angry? Get out of it. Don't do it, yeah, simple. Get out of it. Then you're out of business, bro. I'd rather get out of business because I made a lot of money now, but I like to see people do good. I've got kids myself and especially our kids. I would not encourage anybody to do the life of a crime man. It's bad. What do people need to understand when they are in a crime? They need to understand that the law will eventually catch up to them. Secondly, when you're in the life of crime, you automatically get used to spending a lot of money. So all that money that you're making sooner or later is going to run out. Try to do something legit. You'll make more money out of it. I see people, young kids killing it these days. Crypto stocks and shares to do everything selling courses. A lot of people are making a lot of money and they're not selling drugs and they're not living a life of crime. So there's other things that you can do to make money. Would you ever want your kids to be a lawyer? Yeah, I would, yeah. I would. I like to... That legacy to continue. At least one of them. One of my kids wants to be a boxer. One of them wants to be a politician in Pakistan. He's already living in Pakistan. He's only 15. One of them wants to be a lawyer. Other one they made his mind up here. So where do you go? I know you said you want to retire early, but what's the plans for the next 10 years? I'll be sitting on my yacht relaxing somewhere. Drinking champagne, talking on your Encro. But just water. I'll be drinking water. Yeah, let me see me. I don't drink man. Don't forget me. I don't think you can drink and function properly by that and do things I don't know. See that's one thing I do later about the Muslim beliefs is I don't drink, I don't eat bacon, don't smoke, don't drink. I was actually trying to do it fast but only lasted three days. Three days? My friend that was there, I ran. He lost so much weight but he was in my head. Me too. I lost a lot of weight. It's about so many things. I said fuck it, I'll try it. Three days is good though. I just struggled with it not eating during the day. I struggled. But it shows the discipline. You have to be a proper discipline for that kind of stuff. Yeah, he lost so much. I do recall water with him. Yeah. But he lost so much weight. He just looked fresher, he looked cleaner. You do and then after, after, I lost a lot of weight as well to be fair Ramadan but you are put it back on quite quickly. But it's good for you. It's a good client. It's a good client. So was I to finish up on anything my brother? No, thank you very much for your time. And thank you very much for having me just before I go. I'd like to say everybody just work hard in what you're doing. Nothing comes easy. Nothing worth having will come easy in life. If people are talking about you, your job's done because people only talk about you if you're doing something right. The loudest boos are going to come from the people right at the back of the stadium. People at ringside will not be booing because they are busy enjoying themselves and having positivity around them. And just before I go I'll say remember there's a defense for every offense. What about your social media isn't that bro? Oh yeah, social media. Contact. If something needs a good lawyer. AcmediaCrube on Instagram and TikTok. Even YouTube as well. I've started doing videos. It's been a couple of months now. I've basically started to go in detail, in depth about the little reels and shorts I'm making. So people get a bit more understanding. So add my YouTube channel is AcmediaCrube as well and plug them. Yeah, definitely. A lesson for that. Thank you brother. Thanks for coming on today. I wish you nothing but the best for the future. Enjoy your life. Enjoy family life. Thank you man. And I look forward to seeing your future plans where you take things. Definitely man. God bless you brother. Thank you.