Wednesday04 December2024

Meet Our Team...

The Legal team at Rafina Solicitors comprises highly motivated professionals each with their own personal desire to succeed but yet forming part of an integral network of lawyers, paralegals and other multi-skilled staff. The quality and diverse nature of the team itself, is one which brings together a wide variety of skills from which the firm's clients can benefit

RAFINA RAHIM, LLB
Principal Solicitor

The founder, holds a First Class Honours Degree in Law. She was admitted to the British Bar in 1986 and later re-qualified as a Solicitor in 1990. She was also admitted to the Bar in Guyana, South America. In her 23 years of practice Rafina has been able to offer her clients the benefit of her business experience by offering both a pragmatic approach to problem solving combined with a legal solution. Her ability to assimilate information given and find an effective solution is her unique selling point. Rafina has been working in a varied legal environment since the commencement of the practice in 1993. Her sphere of experience ranges from dealing with clients at all levels each with their particular and different legal issues. Her main focus is on the commercial and corporate clientele where she is best suited. Most recently Rafina has become an accredited Mediator, offering mediation services for clients who wish to resolve disputes out of court. Rafina is a well known and respected business woman in the community. She has demonstrated her ability to take on the challenge of leading a team of legal professionals into the millennium, by ensuring that they themselves are ready to face this challenge.

JAMELA ALI, LLB
Consultant Solicitor

JAMELA A. ALI is an Attorney at Law and Legal Practitioner in the Courts of Guyana, South America, for the past 24 years. Her mission is to provide an efficient and outstanding professional lawyer client service leading to the clients’ success.
Ms. Ali specialises in several areas of Guyana law in the civil and commercial jurisdiction and is presently in private practice providing legal services as an Attorney at Law. She also provides legislative drafting services with regard to the review of Acts and Subsidiary Legislation.
Ms. Ali is also a TradeMark and Patent Designs Agent in Guyana.
Ms. Ali is also trained as a Mediator and provides Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services.
Ms. Ali has written on Adoption, Constitutional law, Legislative Drafting, Duty to Give Reasons, Law Revision and Legal Practitioners Committee, which have been published in the New Guyana Bar Review, Caribbean Law Review, and several other prominent publications. She is a well known speaker on Constitutional Law Reform, Legislative Drafting, Mediation and laws relating to Children and Women.

FAIZA HASAN, LLB
Consultant Solicitor

Faiza Hassan has over 10 years experience in family law.
Throughout her career she has dealt with all areas of family law working with a conciliatory approach to financial and children issues arising on family breakdown.
Faiza has for many years, been a member of ‘Resolution’ - the highly regarded accreditation for family lawyers.
She encourages a constructive approach to resolving family issues and conducts her cases following the organisation's code of good practice. Faiza likes to go to extra lengths to be accessible and supportive to her clients at what she recognises is a difficult time in their lives.
Her open and honest approach makes her very popular with clients. She also provides voluntary telephone legal advice at Rights of Women.

SAFIA RIZVI, LLB
Trainee Solicitor

Safia joined the firm in 2010. Safia specialises in Commercial Property and Residential Conveyancing transactions and advises on all aspects of sales, purchases, auction transactions, rights to buy and on general Property law. As well as the above matters, Safia has recently advised on Franchise arrangements, advising both franchisors and franchisees, Litigation, advising both defendants and claimants and Wills and Probate. Recent notable experience involves advising Clients on using Shariah compliant products (traditionally known as “Islamic Finance”) in their purchase of residential property for those seeking alternative property finance. Safia strives to provide logical solutions to Client's problems. Her dedicated nature ensures that you will receive an efficient, prompt, reliable and friendly service.

Shaheena Hafeez LLB
Registered Foreign Lawyer/ Attorney-at-Law (Sri Lanka)

Shaheena is a fully qualified Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka since 2011. During the time of her practice in Sri Lanka, she was attached to the Civil Litigation Department of the oldest and largest law firm in Sri Lanka, F J & G De Saram. Some of her high profile global clients at the time included Aviva Insurance, McDonalds and Citibank Sri Lanka. She is currently registered with the SRA as a Registered Foreign Lawyer and joined the firm in 2012. Her main areas of practice currently includes civil litigation, personal injury, landlord and tenant matters, wills and probate, general, special and lasting powers of attorney, immigration and citizenship and matrimonial matters. She has an amiable nature and her meticulous approach ensures attention to detail. She is a fluent speaker of Sinhalese, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and Memoni.