Amelia Walker has a broad Public law practice including public inquiries, education, local government, Court of Protection and human rights law.

She  is currently instructed by one of the core participants in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and was junior counsel for one of the core participants in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry.

Amelia is ranked by Chambers and Partners as a leading junior in Education law.

Listen to Amelia discuss deputyship orders in the Court of Protection on ep. 131 and capacity and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy on ep. 142 of Law Pod UK.

Public Law

Amelia Walker has a broad Public law practice including public inquiries, education, local government, Court of Protection and human rights law.

Selected Cases

  • R (Butt) v SSHD [2019] EWCA Civ 256: Prevent duty & extremism.
  • Karia v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2018] EWCA Civ: Case concerning custom officers' powers to stop and search baggage at airports.
  •  1673 R(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.
  • 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.
Direct Access

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.

Listen to Amelia discuss deputyship orders in the Court of Protection on ep. 131 of our podcast Law Pod UK.

She is recognised by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 as a leading junior, who say “she is focused and knowledgeable.” 

Direct Access

Amelia accepts direct access instruction instruction from lay clients in suitable cases. Visit her profile to find out more here.

“A very good advocate – she is very clear in the way that she speaks and she writes good submissions.” “She is conscientious and determined.”

Chambers & Partners 2021

‘She represents the government in sensitive cases.’

Legal 500 2021

“She’s understanding, empathetic and very clever.”

Chambers & Partners 2020

Appointments

  • Attorney General’s C Panel

Awards

  • Pegasus Scholarship (2010)
  • Ede & Ravenscroft Prize (2007)
  • Inner Temple Major Scholar (2006)
  • Inner Temple Exhibitioner (2005)
  • Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow (2002-2003)
  • Harborne Tankard for academic & sporting excellence (2002)
  • Gonville & Caius College Senior Scholar (2001-2002)
  • Gonville & Caius College Junior Scholar (2000-2001)

Education

  • City University, Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent) (2006-2007)
  • City University Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction) (2005-2006)
  • Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University (MPhil in Historical Studies) (2003-2004)
  • Harvard University, Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow (2002-2003)
  • Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University History MA (Double First Class Hon.) (1999-2002)

Memberships

  • Bar Civil (Public) Panel, chaired by Jan Luba QC
  • CALBA
  • UKELA
  • Chatham House

Publications

  • Unfitness to plead and the defence of insanity- time to leave the 19th Century? (Criminal Law Weekly, October 2013)
  • Kinship foster carers’ allowances (Law Society Gazette, August 2013)
  • Court ruling on kinship foster carers: lessons for councils (The Guardian, August 2013)
  • Are the UK Government’s banks subject to judicial review (Journal of International Business and Law, January 2013, Nigel Jones QC, David Lawson, Amelia Walker)
  • Contributor to the 1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review (QMLR)
  • Law Pod UK Ep. 131: Deputyship Orders in Court of Protection

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