Amy Street

CALLED TO THE BAR 2002

Junior Counsel

Mental Health Profile

Background

2003 Tenancy at 3 Serjeants' Inn

2002-2003 Pupillage at 3 Serjeants' Inn

(Supervisors: Jon Holl-Allen, Angus Moon QC and John Beggs QC)

2001-2002 BVC, Inner Temple Princess Royal Scholar; called to the Bar

2000-2001 MA Medical Ethics and Law (Distinction; Prize for Best Dissertation), Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London

1996-2000 BA Law with German Law (2:1 Scholarship), New College, University of Oxford (including a year at Bonn University)

Amy sings with the City of London Choir: http://www.cityoflondonchoir.org/

Email: astreet@3serjeantsinn.com

Directory Comments

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

Nature of Practice

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. She advises and represents all sides in mental health proceedings. Her mental health practice complements her medical law and public law practice, and includes the following:

Judicial review
Human rights
Habeas corpus
Mental health review tribunals
Applications to displace nearest relatives
Overlap with police law: mental health issues which arise for the police.

Reported and other cases of Interest

.Examples of unreported cases:

• Representing both an NHS trust and a local authority in urgent High Court habeas corpus proceedings concerning the local authority’s failure properly to consult the nearest relative before making an application for admission for treatment under section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

• Acting in mental health review tribunals concerning restricted patients: eg representing Rampton Hospital.

• Acting for a nearest relative in a local authority’s displacement application.

• Drafting a judicial review pre-action protocol letter on behalf of a man whose wife had been taken hundreds of miles away for assessment under section 2 of the Mental Health Act 1983.