A professional misconduct complaint has been laid with the Legal Practice Council (LPC) against an attorney who allegedly accused a senior counsel, dressed in a hijab, of “dressing like a ninja” to put “on an act” for the day’s proceedings at the ...
Nazreen Bawa was representing the Women’s Legal Centre in a case about the recognition and regulation of Muslim marriages.A recording of Thursday’s virtual hearing reveals a female voice saying: “Look at Nazreen Bawa, she’s dressed like a ninja. Did she always dress like that? She didn’t. She’s putting on an act today, can you see?” Constitutional Court justice Stevan Majiedt said: “It’s a Yasmin Omar that was speaking. Can people please mute.
The Muslim marriages case, which began in 2009, has left Muslim organisations divided over the extent to which the state should be involved in the application of sharia law. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Bawa said at the heart of the case was the protection of vulnerable women and children, rather than aShe said it was perhaps “a level of intolerance for views of Islam that don’t accord with your own” that lay at the root of comments like Omar’s.
In the complaint to the LPC, Sha’ista Kazee, an advocate at the Pan African Bar Association, said the statement was “not only a deeply personal attack on Ms Bawa’s personal beliefs but is insulting, hateful, and demeaning of Ms Bawa’s adherence to the Islamic faith”.The statement is inherently discriminatory”, said Kazee, and to make matters worse, instead of immediately apologising Omar had, in the media, told a “blatant falsehood”.
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