With a wealth of experience in employment, property and trusts law, Amy appears in courts and tribunals and the High Court, as well as at appellate level in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal. She advises and acts for the full spectrum of claimants and defendants/respondents. Her clients range from individuals to local authorities, private companies, charities, police constabularies as well as national chains and statutory corporations, and include Transport for London, Network Rail, the City of London Police and Metropolitan Police.
Amy is an adjudicator for airline disputes involving claims for the delay and cancellation of flights, denial of boarding, downgrading and other financial claims governed by Regulation (EC) No 261/2004, delay and lost, stolen or damaged luggage governed by the Montreal Convention 1999 as well as claims against both airlines and airports from persons of restricted mobility under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006.
Amy gives in-house talks and seminars on a breadth of topics and is a trained mediator. She is a member of the Gibraltar Bar.
Amy advises on contested family trusts and co-ownership cases as well as disputes concerning the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Her experience includes commercial chancery matters, both in the UK and Gibraltar and she has appeared in the High Court as well as the county courts. She is a member of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists.
Amy recently secured a finding of harassment on behalf of a Crown prosecutor suffering from PTSD and is also acting for a company in a long-running dispute faced with claims of race discrimination and harassment. She obtained costs against a manager who had been dismissed by a pub chain for recruiting bar staff without following the proper procedures. In terms of her property work, she advised recently on the viability of obtaining relief against forfeiture of an apartment block at the centre of a proposed construction project in Gibraltar and, in the UK, on the enforceability of land options affecting neighbouring land subject to an easement.