Oliver Sanders QC and Amelia Walker in Court of Appeal extremism case - Mar 2019
Amelia Walker has a broad Public law practice including public inquiries, education, local government, Court of Protection and human rights law.
She was junior counsel for one of the core participants in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry and is currently instructed by one of the core participants in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Amelia is ranked by Chambers and Partners as a leading junior in Education law.
Amelia has been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel.
Public LawSelected Cases
- Karia v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2018] EWCA Civ: Case concerning custom officers' powers to stop and search baggage at airports.
- 1673R(Help Refugees Ltd) v SSHD [2017] 4 WLR: Defended the SSHD’s implementation of the ‘Dubs Amendment’ scheme under s.67 of the Immigration Act 2016. Issues in respect of the consultation process, the setting of the number of children to be transferred, and the process adopted.
- R (Butt) v SSHD [2017] EWHC 1930 (Admin): Prevent duty & extremism.
- Grange Shipping Ltd. v HMRC [2017] UKFTT 142 (TC): Article 239 of Customs Code.
- R (on the application of C (Gambia) v SSHD [2016] EWHC 2016 (Admin): Immigration and Detained Fast Track process.
- R (on the application of Rasheed) v SSHD [2015] EWHC 2052 (Admin), [2015] A.C.D. 130: British citizenship and identity.
- R (on the application of Stevenson) v Governor of Wakefield Prison [2015] EWHC 1014 Admin: Allocation and Article 8.
- Brown v Secretary of State for Education [2015] EWHC 643 (Admin); [2015] A.C.D. 88: Teaching prohibition order.
- K v A Local Authority [2014] E.L.R. 295: School class sizes.
- TB v Essex CC [2014] E.L.R. 46: Meaning of ‘school’ in the Education Act 1996.
- R (on the application of X) v Tower Hamlets LBC [2013] EWCA Civ 904; [2013] 4 All E.R. 237: Family foster carers and equal treatment.
Amelia Walker has a broad public law practice including public inquiries, education, local government, Court of Protection and human rights law. She accepts instruction from lay clients in all these areas.
She is recognised by Chambers & Partners as a leading junior, who say “she is focused and knowledgeable.”
Amelia Walker successful in the Court of Appeal in a case on powers to stop and search baggage at airports, as reported by The Times - Sep 2018
The Appellant arrived from Amsterdam and attempted to leave the airport through the non-EU customs exit. He was stopped and asked to submit his luggage for an examination, this revealed nothing...
1COR hosts Local Government & Education Law Conference - Sep 2017
A conference was held on 14th September in Brighton for local authority lawyers practicing in the field of education. The main speaker at the event was Amelia Walker who gave a case update and then...
1COR Public Law Seminar – Life, Liberty & Security - Sep 2017
Date: 11th September 2017 We will be tweeting using the hash tag: #1CORpublic Registration: 16:30pm onwards Programme: 17:00 - 17:50 Panel Discussion chaired by Mrs Justice Whipple. ...
David Manknell and Amelia Walker successful in their defence of the Dubs child refugee scheme - Nov 2017
The High Court (Treacy LJ and Ouseley J) has dismissed the judicial review application challenging the number of unaccompanied minors being given sanctuary in the UK under the Dubs amendment. David...
David Manknell and Amelia Walker successfully defend challenge to the Home Office’s procedures - Sep 2017
David Manknell and Amelia Walker acted for the Home Secretary and were instructed by the Government Legal Department in this seminal case of Citizens UK v the Secretary of State for the Home...
1COR Hosts 2017 Court of Protection Conference - Sep 2017
Chambers hosted a conference in Brighton on 14th September on recent developments in the Court of Protection with Local Government Lawyers from the Orbis Group covering Surrey, East & West Sussex...
The Times reports on Chambers extremism cases - Jun 2017
Frances Gibb has written in The Times (｣) about the number of cases being heard in the Family Division concerning extremism. The piece features quotations from Mr Justice Hayden in A Local Authority...
Martin Downs in new Radicalisation Judgment about protecting older children and vulnerable adults - Apr 2017
Mr Justice Hayden has just handed down a new Judgment concerning safeguarding those at risk of radicalisation: A Local Authority v Y [2017] EWHC 968 (Fam) (27 April 2017). The Judgment focuses on...
Marina Wheeler QC in Public Interest Immunity & Radicalisation case - Apr 2017
Marina Wheeler QC appeared for the Home Secretary in her successful application for public interest immunity in a Radicalisation Case. Mrs Justice Pauffley has just handed down Judgment. The case...
Oliver Sanders and Amelia Walker in counter-extremism judicial review - Dec 2016
The claimant, Dr Salman Butt, is challenging the lawfulness of two features of the Home Secretary's counter-extremism strategy - the Prevent Duty Guidance on external speakers at universities and the...
1COR quiz team wins the Leigh Day / Silverlining Brain Injury Charity Quiz night - Feb 2015
