Parvais Jabbar is the joint Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project, and is a Human Rights Executive at SM&B.

He shared The Times/Justice Young Lawyer of the Year Award in 1999 with Saul Lehrfreund.

A founder member of the pro bono lawyers panel of the United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Parvais' areas of specialisation are criminal litigation, constitutional law, international human rights law and prison law.