Defending rights, challenging power, and shaping legal standards.

Sultana is regularly instructed in public law and human rights matters engaging the limits of state power, particularly where national security, extremism, protest and post-sentence control intersect with civil liberties and Convention rights. This work frequently arises from the same terrorism and national-security cases described above, approached through a public law and constitutional lens, and involves scrutiny of the legality, proportionality and fairness of executive decision-making.

Her practice in this area includes challenges to decisions affecting liberty, expression, belief and procedural fairness; regulatory and disciplinary proceedings arising from alleged extremist or protest-related expression; and post-sentence and preventive measures subject to public law review. She is frequently instructed in cases where public authorities rely on national-security assessments, intelligence material or risk-based reasoning, requiring careful judicial scrutiny.

Sultana’s experience encompasses professional and university disciplinary proceedings, Parole Board and TPIM litigation, inquests, and family proceedings involving allegations of extremism or radicalisation, including matters engaging closed material and sensitive intelligence. In these contexts, she is regularly instructed to address proportionality, disclosure, procedural fairness, and the compatibility of executive action with Articles 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 ECHR.

Her domestic public law practice is closely integrated with her international human rights work, enabling her to engage authoritatively with cases that raise cross-border, comparative or international legal issues alongside domestic public law challenges, and to situate national-security decision-making within its broader international legal context.