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Manizja Latifi

Year of Call: 2022

Continuing Professional Development

Inn: The Honourable Society of Inner Temple

Career overview

Manizja Latifi joined Citadel Chambers as a tenant in August 2025 following the successful completion of her pupillage. She accepts instructions in both the Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court, undertaking prosecution and defence work primarily on the Midland Circuit.

Practice Summary

Manizja appears regularly in the Crown Court, conducting sentencing hearings, confiscation proceedings, and appeals against convictions. Quick on her feet and confident under pressure, she has developed particular experience defending young offenders and has secured acquittals in several Youth Court trials and in the Crown Court. She is also frequently instructed to defend in motoring cases.

Manizja is on the CPS Crown Court General Crime Panel as a Grade 2 Advocate. She has completed the ICCA Advocacy Children and Vulnerable People training.

Details of practice

Her current practice builds on experience gained during pupillage and in her previous role as clerk to a High Court Judge, where she assisted with complex and high-profile criminal trials. Prior to undertaking pupillage at Citadel Chambers, she worked with Amnesty International as a legal researcher, contributing to reports on the protection of women’s reproductive rights and global responses to practices such as female genital mutilation.

 

Scholarships and Awards

Exhibition Award (The Honourable Society of Inner Temple)

 

Memberships

The Honourable Society of Inner Temple
Criminal Bar Association
Young Fraud Lawyers Association

 

Languages

 

Manizja is fluent in Dutch and Farsi/Dari.

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Witness Familiarisation Support And Courses

These are a few examples of courses in which our members have been involved:

  • Witness familiarisation with trainee police officers and special constables from Northamptonshire Police, where the officers were questioned regarding their statements about ‘mock’ arrest exercises
  • Similar exercises with detectives from the West Midlands Police
  • Witness familiarisation with officers of the Northamptonshire Probation Service.  These officers were given training on the process of giving evidence in sentencing hearings in the Magistrates Court and Crown Court
  • Expert witness familiarisation and training, with expert witnesses such as independent Forensic Scientists, and officers of the Health and Safety Executive. The exercises involved questioning regarding expert reports prepared by the participants

Equal Opportunity Policy

 

Citadel’s members come from a range of backgrounds and everyone is treated with the same respect as part of our Chamber’s community. 

 

We operate an equal opportunity policy and act in accordance with the Bar Code of Conduct and the Equality Code for the Bar.

 

We seek to prevent direct or indirect discrimination towards our clients, staff, tenants and pupils, on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality or citizenship, political persuasion, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or age.

Maternity / Paternity Policy

We support all members  who  are fortunate enough to become parents.   Whilst Citadel has written policies dealing with issues of maternity and paternity leave for members of Chambers and support staff, we also try to be flexible in our approach and to accommodate individual needs.

Uniquely (to our knowledge) we offer direct financial support to members returning from parental leave in order to cushion the cash flow impact of return to practice . 

Click here to listen to a podcast about our members with children and how we deal with childcare issues.