Public Inquiries

Amelia is currently junior counsel for the Department for Health and Social Care in the Covid-19 Inquiry. She has previously been instructed by the London Fire Brigade as a junior member of the team for the Grenfell Inquiry and by the Home Office in the Brook House Inquiry.

Amelia is currently instructed as junior counsel to Eleanor Grey KC and Colin Thomann KC to represent the SSHD in a judicial review which seeks an Article 3 ECHR compliant inquiry into events at Manston Short-Term Holding Facility in 2022.

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“Amelia is an excellent advocate, controlled, in command and persuasive.”

Legal 500 2025

“She is clear and pragmatic in her advice and manages expectations sensitively. Her advocacy is thorough and she is always exceptionally well prepared.”

Legal 500 2025

Appointments

  • Attorney General’s B Panel of Civil Counsel (2024- present)
  • Attorney General’s C Panel of Civil Counsel (2023-2024)
  • Elected member of the Bar Representation Committee, Lincoln’s Inn: 2016-2021

Awards

  • Prize-winner in the Bar Council Law Reform Competition (2016)
  • Walter Wigglesworth Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2016)
  • Hardwicke Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2016)
  • Advocacy Scholar, University of Law (2015)
  • Educational Trust Scholarship, International Bar Association (2015)
  • Winner of the Littleton Award for the highest mark in Labour Law in FHS, University of Oxford (2014)

Education

  • 2024: Executive Master in International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict, Geneva Academy (Summa Cum Laude)
  • 2017: BPTC University of Law (Outstanding)
  • 2014: BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford (1st Class)

Memberships

  • Personal Injury Bar Association
  • Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
  • Employment Lawyers’ Association

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