Amelia Williams

Amelia Williams’s practice encompasses the full range of Chambers’ work. She has a broad practice, particularly in public law and human rights, immigration, personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests and professional discipline. She is ranked by the Legal 500 as a leading junior in Inquests & Inquiries, Immigration and Personal Injury.

Amelia has a busy civil law practice. She appears regularly in court for both Claimants and Defendants in trials, application hearings, CCMCs and disposal hearings. She has considerable advocacy experience, and is a confident courtroom and trial advocate, having rarely spent a day out of court during her first few years of self-employed practice.

Amelia is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel. She has been instructed by the GLD as sole counsel in the High Court, before the Upper Tribunal, in the First Tier Tribunal and in family proceedings. She is regularly instructed by the GLD as junior counsel in high profile cases, led by a number of different silks.

Amelia is currently instructed by the London Fire Commissioner as junior counsel in the civil claims arising from the Grenfell Tower fire, as part of a team led by William Norris KC, and is junior counsel for the Department for Health and Social Care in the Covid-19 Inquiry, as part of a team led by Fiona Scolding KC and Sam Stein KC.

Before coming to the Bar Amelia worked in Jordan on a posting with the United Nations Refugee and Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) before then completing an internship with the International Bar Association. In 2017 she was elected to the Lincoln’s Inn Bar Committee for a period of four years and she is committed to pro bono work.