She became an Advocate and Solicitor of the Malaysian Bar and served as a legal consultant to United Nations agencies. She was a Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM), an Adjunct Professor at the Kulliyah of Laws at the International Islamic University Malaysia, and a member of the Board of Directors of Institut Rakyat.

Her scholarly and advocacy work on the issue of conversion to Islam was extensive. She presented papers at major conferences, including Overview of Recent Developments in Malaysian Law (2006) and a Bar Council forum in 2008, where she urged the then-Prime Minister to amend civil laws to resolve conflicts arising when one spouse converts. She published Resolving Child Custody Disputes: The Law and Practice in Malaysia with LexisNexis in 2012.

As President of AWL in the late 1980s, she helped establish the intellectual and advocacy foundations on which successive committees have built. AWL remembers her as a scholar, an activist, and a woman of extraordinary principle.