From taxi driver to barrister: Jalil Rizvi’s journey to the bar
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The Irish Times has profiled Jalil Rizvi, a Pakistani immigrant, who has overcome every difficulty to qualify as a barrister this year.
“On September 29th last members of the Rizvi family gathered with friends in the town of Mandi Bahuddin in northwest Pakistan to mark an important occasion. Halfway around the world, Jalil Rizvi, who had recently completed his law degree at King’s Inns, was being called to the bar in Dublin’s Four Courts.
“His loved ones back in Pakistan had come together to celebrate his achievement from afar. They had also heard plenty about Ireland’s outgoing Chief Justice Frank Clarke who would be leading Rizvi’s ceremony.
“’My mother and family were all so proud, they were saying that the son of Mandi Bahuddin had qualified as a barrister in Ireland. I’d say the whole town now knows who chief justice Frank Clarke is’.”
“Rizvi’s law degree and qualification as a barrister was the culmination of 14 years of hard work, which included many long nights travelling around Dublin as a taxi driver to make ends meet.”
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