Solicitor Jelina Rahman, last year named as one of the 30 Under 30 promising lawyers in Scotland, has been awarded the accolade of becoming one of the UK’s top businesses in the 2009 Trading Places Awards – a national award honouring men and women who are turning their lives around by choosing to start up a business.

Rahman recently opened up her own firm, JR Rahman Solicitors, in Glasgow's Carlton Place.  She has an active history in handling asylum and immigration cases, and co-ordinated the Chokhar justice campaign.

Rahman recently told the Firm she chose law to "ensure justice prevails."

"I feel a great achievement when I stop a deportation orderr or win an asylum claim which has been refused by the Home Office.," she said.

"When I see how grateful the clients are, that is when I know why I became a solciotr; to help other who do not understanmd a complicated legal system; helpming the most vulnerable in our society."