Amanda Weston KC shortlisted for 'KC of the Year' at Family Law Awards 2024

The LexisNexis Family Law Awards celebrate exceptional achievements, unwavering commitment to justice, and groundbreaking contributions in the field of family law.

The category 'Family KC of the Year' is awarded to a King's Counsel who has made a major contribution to the field of family law through their advice and high-level advocacy. The winner is decided by the judging panel.

View the full shortlist here.

Amanda Weston KC 
Amanda is a leading public and administrative law silk. She co-authors Judicial Review: A Practical Guide (Lexis Nexis), is a contributor to Emergency Remedies in the Family Courts (Lexis Nexis) and the LAG  Public Law update. She is a member of the ‘A’ Panel of preferred Counsel who act for the Equality & Human Rights Commission. Amanda has acted in hundreds of asylum and human rights appeals including in high-profile and sensitive cases and those involving extradition and inter-country adoption. Her cases include gender and sexuality cases, complex political and religious cases and appeals for children and vulnerable adults. Amanda brings her broader public and international law expertise to cases in the Family Division, Administrative Court and appeal courts where the rights of children and young people are in play. 

Amanda acts for children and young people, including through their Children's Guardians, parents, including adoptive and foster parents and local authorities. Her particular areas of ‘crossover’ expertise involve safeguarding, local authority corporate parenting duties, education and disability, deprivation of liberty, immigration and citizenship matters and sensitive cross-cultural areas including FGM, 'radicalisation', trafficking and forced marriage. Amanda advises on and undertakes human rights claims, including HFEA and paternity related matters, and breaches of statutory duties to children and young people. She operates a ‘trauma-informed’ practice and has particular experience working with neurodivergent clients.

Notable cases include acting for the local authority in the Supreme Court (leading our Amanda Meusz and Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright) in Re T [2021] UKSC 35 and acting for T in Re T & others (Children: Adequacy of Reasons) [2023] EWCA Civ 757, leading our Josephine Fathers, in which findings against a vulnerable young person were set aside by the Court of Appeal. She acted for two appellants in Re H-N and Others (children) (domestic abuse: finding of fact hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448 on achieving justice in private cases of domestic abuse and coercive control.

Amanda originally trained in family and child law as a pupil to Elizabeth Woodcraft. She took silk in 2018.