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Garden Court Chambers | Friday 31 May 2024

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Family Law | Friday 28 March 2025

‘‘Has the time come to widen the scope of legal parentage?’ The Family Justice Council’s 17th Annual Debate’ published in Family Law Journal

The article is co-written by Amanda Weston KC of the Garden Court Chambers Family Law Team for Family Law, alongside Maya Achan of Coram Chambers.

Amanda Weston KC

Administrative and Public Law, British Citizenship and Naturalisation, Public International Law | Thursday 6 March 2025

Important Supreme Court ruling protects children from statelessness

The Supreme Court has ruled that a child born to a parent deprived of their British citizenship, pending an ultimately successful appeal against deprivation, acquired British citizenship at birth. Amanda Weston KC and Ali Bandegani of Garden Court Chambers acted for JCWI in the appeal.

Amanda Weston KCAli Bandegani

Family Law | Friday 24 January 2025

‘Trauma and the Family Courts: developing a trauma-informed practice’ published in Family Law Journal

The article is co-written by Amanda Weston KC and Amanda Meusz of the Garden Court Chambers Family Law Team for Family Law, alongside Lucy Barnes, CEO and co-founder of Lawyers Who Care and a pupil barrister at East Anglian Chambers.

Amanda Weston KCAmanda Meusz

Family Law | Wednesday 28 August 2024

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

We are delighted to announce that our Amanda Weston KC has been shortlisted for 'KC of the Year' at The Family Law Awards 2024.

Amanda Weston KC

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 12 June 2024

Garden Court barristers appointed as panel counsel to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

We are delighted to announce that 12 members of Garden Court Chambers have been appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) preferred panel of counsel.

Children’s Rights, Administrative and Public Law, Family Law | Friday 7 July 2023

Amanda Weston KC successfully secures order setting aside findings against vulnerable teenager

Amanda Weston KC, of the Garden Court Chambers Children’s Rights & Public Law Team, alongside Garden Court Pupil Barrister Josephine Fathers, represented T. They were instructed by Oliver Fisher Solicitors.

Amanda Weston KCJosephine Fathers

Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation | Tuesday 14 March 2023

Permission to appeal on additional grounds granted in challenge to Home Secretary decision to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda

Sonali Naik KC, Amanda Weston KC, Mark Symes and Isaac Ricca-Richardson of Garden Court Chambers represented AS (Iran) instructed by Paul Turner and Iain Palmer of Barnes Harrild and Dyer Solicitors.

Education Law, Children’s Rights | Tuesday 14 February 2023

Changes to legal aid rules in SEND appeals following legal challenge

Amanda Weston KC, Oliver Persey, and Isaac Ricca-Richardson of Garden Court Chambers represented the child, instructed by Emma Vincent Miller of Public Law Project.

Amanda Weston KCOllie PerseyIsaac Ricca-Richardson

Administrative and Public Law, Community Care Law, Children’s Rights | Friday 20 January 2023

Human Rights Assessments: Local Authority concedes Children Act 1989 duties take precedence over residual & discretionary Immigration Act 1999 powers

The claimant, HTT, was represented by Amanda Weston KC and Maria Moodie of Garden Court Chambers. Counsel instructed by Verity Cannell of Bindmans LLP.

Amanda Weston KCMaria Moodie

Administrative and Public Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Immigration Law | Wednesday 18 January 2023

Rwanda judgment: Permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal granted

Sonali Naik KC, Amanda Weston KC, Mark Symes, Eva Doerr, Isaac Ricca-Richardson, Alex Grigg, David Sellwood, Raza Halim and Ali Bandegani of Garden Court Chambers instructed for the claimants.

Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Immigration: Personal and Business | Monday 19 December 2022

Rwanda judgment: Home Secretary failed to properly consider if asylum seekers should not be relocated to Rwanda

Garden Court Chambers (with others) represented a number of claimants.

Family Law, Domestic Abuse, Divorce and Family Finances | Friday 11 March 2022

‘Emergency Remedies in the Family Courts’ loose-leaf available now

Co-authored by members of the Garden Court Chambers Family Team, Amanda Weston QC, Lorna Cservenka, Mai-Ling Savage and Anne Osborne.

Amanda Weston KCLorna Cservenka

Court of Protection, Administrative and Public Law | Thursday 13 January 2022

Suspension of DLA after 28 days in hospital did not violate Article 14 ECHR, in case of an adult patient with severe learning disabilities

The Appellant was represented by Amanda Weston QC, Desmond Rutledge and Ollie Persey of Garden Court Chambers instructed by Merseyside Law Centre (Samantha Maher, Trainee Solicitor).

Amanda Weston KCDesmond RutledgeOllie Persey

Administrative and Public Law | Friday 7 January 2022

High Court rules that student finance regulations discriminated against students who were unable to prove their immigration status in time due to pandemic delays

JN was represented by Amanda Weston QC and Gráinne Mellon of the Garden Court Public Law Team. They were instructed by Keith Lomax, solicitor, of Watkins Solicitors on behalf of the Claimant.

Amanda Weston KCGráinne Mellon

Administrative and Public Law, Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation | Wednesday 20 October 2021

Supreme Court reaffirms, in the bail context, the constitutional principle that judicial orders must be obeyed unless and until set aside

Representing the Appellant, Amanda Weston QC led Gordon Lee, both of Garden Court Chambers.

Amanda Weston KCGordon Lee

Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Friday 27 August 2021

Amanda Weston QC Shortlisted for Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year by Chambers Bar Awards 2021

We are delighted to announce that Amanda Weston QC of Garden Court Chambers has been shortlisted for Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year by the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards 2021.

Amanda Weston KC

Administrative and Public Law | Wednesday 17 March 2021

High Court declares that Home Secretary had no power to cancel indefinite leave to remain while holder outside the UK

Amanda Weston QC of the Garden Court Chambers Public Law Team represented C1.

Amanda Weston KC

Family Law | Thursday 21 January 2021

Amanda Weston QC representing Appellant Mothers in Court of Appeal Domestic Abuse Case

Amanda Weston QC of Garden Court Chambers is representing two appellant Mothers. She is leading Dr Charlotte Proudman of Goldsmiths Chambers. In the case of B-B Amanda Weston QC, leads Dr Proudman, instructed by Jenny Beck of Beck Fitzgerald

Amanda Weston KC

Immigration Law, Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Administrative and Public Law | Tuesday 12 January 2021

Court of Appeal rejects attempt by Secretary of State to broaden refugee exclusion categories

Amanda Weston QC of Garden Court Chambers and Anthony Vaughan of Doughty Street Chambers represented NF, instructed by Jawaid Luqmani of Luqmani Thompson Solicitors.

Amanda Weston KC
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