Amelia Williams

Public Law

Amelia regularly accepts instructions in public law and maintains a keen interest in the area. She has recently completed a part-time Executive Master in International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict at the Geneva Academy.

Amelia is regularly instructed in a range of national security cases. She has experience in advising on the regulation of interception of communications and intelligence service oversight.

Further, she is experienced in advising public bodies given her previous employment within GLD and her current role as junior counsel to the London Fire Commissioner in the civil claims from the Grenfell Tower fire.

Selected Cases

• Instructed by SSHD as a junior post-judgment in R (HM, MA & KH) v SSHD [2002] EWHC 2749 (Admin), in advance of a further hearing addressing the duty of candour concerns raised in the substantive judgment.
• Instructed by a group of Claimants as sole counsel in a claim against a local council, which includes a claim for exemplary damages.
• Instructed by the Ministry of Defence as junior counsel in a case challenging the adequacy of the investigation into the deaths of Afghans in the course of a raid by a UK Army unit in Afghanistan.