Amy is recommended in police law by Chambers & Partners.

Amy Street is viewed as “a straight down the line, no-nonsense advocate, who is building a highly impressive practice.” She focuses on judicial reviews and also represents many forces in civil actions and disciplinary work. As an indication of the strides she is making, she appeared in the Austin v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis case. Chambers and Partners 2010

'Amy Street has been identified as a name to watch.' Chambers & Partners 2009

Amy is frequently instructed in cases with complex legal issues.  She has a substantial High Court practice.  Most of her work involves acting for or against public bodies.

Police law - CLICK HERE TO SEE SPECIALIST PROFILE

Civil actions against the police 

Judicial review

Complaints and misconduct / performance, etc.

Police constitutional arrangements including police authorities 

Human rights

Information law

Policy advice

Operational advice 

Inquests and inquiries

Overlap with medical and mental health law

Medical law - CLICK HERE TO SEE SPECIALIST PROFILE

Mental capacity (including Court of Protection)

Specific medical law issues and medical ethics

General medical law issues (eg policy advice)

Human rights

Public law issues

Information law

Professional discipline

Inquests and inquiries

Overlap with police law
 

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Employment law - CLICK HERE TO SEE SPECIALIST PROFILE

Police complaints and misconduct

Human resource issues for police officers

Police pensions

Discrimination

Human rights

Professional Discipline - CLICK HERE TO SEE SPECIALIST PROFILE

Legal advisor / assessor roles

Judicial review

Police complaints and misconduct / performance, etc

General Medical Council

Personal injury 

Junior counsel for the Metropolitan Police, led by David Pannick QC and John Beggs QC, in two leading appellate human rights authorities in the public order context:

R (Laporte) v Gloucestershire Police and others [2007] 2 AC 105: Judicial review concerning police action to prevent a breach of the peace at RAF Fairford, including the forced return to London of coach-loads of anti-war protesters.  

Austin & Saxby v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2008] 2 WLR 415 (CA) [2009] 1 AC 564 (HL): Claim concerning the containment of a crowd by the police to prevent public disorder at Oxford Circus in 2001. Issues included whether this was a deprivation of liberty under Article 5 ECHR. Metropolitan Police successfully defended claim up to House of Lords.  

Other cases:

R (Ferriday) v Chief Constable of Gwent Police [2009] EWHC 2083 (Admin): Judicial review concerning the dismissal of a probationary constable under regulation 13 of the Police Regulations 2003. Issues included the force’s alleged failure to follow its policy.  Junior counsel for the (successful) Chief Constable - led by John Beggs QC. 

Re B (A Minor) [2009] 1 FLR 1264, [2009] LS Law Medical 214: Represented a hospital in its application to the High Court for a declaration that treatment could be withheld from a young child if her condition deteriorated.

NHS Trust v Ms D and Mr and Mrs D [2006] 1 FLR 638: Represented the parents of an adult suffering from a terminal neurological condition in the hospital's high profile application to the High Court for a declaration that treatment could be withheld. A supplemental judgment on costs (reported at [2006] Lloyd's Rep Med 193) formed part of the Family Division’s developing case law concerning the practice whereby the NHS trust in such an application pays one half of the Official Solicitor's costs.

Contributor of reports and commentaries to the LS Medical Law Reports.

Author of Chapter 5, “Going to Court”, in Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, written by a team of authors at 3 Serjeants’ Inn and edited by Christopher Johnston (Bloomsbury Professional, 2010).
 
Editor of the Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law companion website. See the link on the left or directly at http://www.3serjeantsinn.com/medical_treatment_decisions_and_the_law

Amy was a guest on Unreliable Evidence, Clive Anderson’s legal discussion programme on Radio 4. In the light of her experience representing the Metropolitan Police in Austin & Saxby she was invited to discuss “Law and Protest” with Lord Hoffmann and others shortly after the G20 protests in 2009. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kfgcz/Unreliable_Evidence_The_Law_and_Protest/

She now acts as a legal adviser to the programme.