Khan was born in
Pakistan in 1964 and moved from Pakistan to
London in 1968 when he was nearly four years old. He grew up in
Upton Park in
East London. He attended
Lister Community School in
Plaistow and studied law at the
University of East London, then known as the
North East London Polytechnic, graduating in 1987. He had been working as a lawyer for 18 months when he became the Lawrence's solicitor. Khan was awarded the rank of
Queen's Counsel in 2018. ==References==