Amy Street

Call 2002

Amy Street | Call 2002

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Overview

Amy is an experienced Court of Protection specialist who combines humanity and rigour with pragmatism and a team approach. She acts across the full range of health and welfare matters including deprivation of liberty and is used to navigating care-funding issues . Amy also welcomes instructions in Property and Affairs cases. Based in the north of England, she has a nationwide practice and accepts both in-person hearings and remote instructions from across the country.

“She is an exceptionally bright barrister who is able to cut through complex issues.”
“Just so approachable with a good understanding of clients’ needs.”
Chambers & Partners

Amy Street was previously an Assistant Coroner in three jurisdictions.

Experience & Expertise

Amy recognises that good case management is at the heart of Court of Protection work, particularly in welfare proceedings. She encourages NHS bodies, local authorities and others considering applications to seek advice at an early stage before COP proceedings begin wherever possible. Amy is equally comfortable providing urgent support when a case has reached a difficult stage, but early involvement allows her to anticipate potential problems and help clients develop a clear and proportionate strategy.

Amy came to chambers following a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law. She began practising in the Court of Protection when the Mental Capacity Act 2005 came into force and was involved in leading cases that shaped the interpretation of the new legislation. This work led Amy to be ranked as a Band One junior in Chambers and Partners when the Court of Protection category was created.

Her wider practice has encompassed healthcare, mental health, public law and human rights, acting in a range of cases including those progressing through the appellate courts. In light of her specific expertise, she was brought in as junior counsel in the Supreme Court in Cheshire West in 2014. She now draws on her experience in that landmark case and her extensive work on deprivation of liberty issues when advising on cases in light of A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland (Supreme Court, 2026).

Over a number of years subsequently, she worked as Assistant Coroner in three jurisdictions as well as an advocate in inquests, as junior counsel in public inquiries, and was appointed by the Cabinet Office to assist Sir Robert Francis KC in his role as Chair of the Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study which reported in 2022.

Since returning to Court of Protection practice in 2025, she brings a sense of perspective from her years in practice and varied experience, valuing the opportunities to work again with colleagues from her earlier years in practice, and developing new relationships.

Amy has contributed to publications such as Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law (2016), Jervis on Coroners (2019), Medical Law Reports and Inquest Law Reports. She was consultant to BBC Radio 4’s legal discussion programme Unreliable Evidence.

Her wider interests include decolonisation in legal contexts, reflective practice and art.

Recommendations

Clients cited by the directories note that Amy is ‘phenomenal on paper and in court’, ‘very pleasant to deal with and a super bright, competent counsel’ and ‘a leading Court of Protection practitioner who has acted in a string of landmark cases’.

Other directory editorial has included the following:

  • intellectually powerful;
  • goes above and beyond for clients;
  • excellent analytic skills;
  • a clear and incisive lawyer;
  • she’s an extremely smooth and persuasive advocate;
  • she is very effective and knows her stuff;
  • she’s got a brain the size of a planet;
  • very energetic;
  • one of the most thorough and careful barristers I have worked with;
  • works very hard;
  • outstandingly clear;
  • she has extremely high standards;
  • a great analytical mind;
  • a formidable junior;
  • very knowledgeable;
  • very diligent and capable;
  • perhaps the most thorough of all the advocates I have led;
  • very committed;
  • has all the facts at her fingertips;
  • is prepared in great detail;
  • she has natural gravitas;
  • she really knows her stuff when it comes to social care or Court of Protection issues;
  • an extremely helpful and co-operative opponent;
  • really clever and understatedly so;
  • her drafting is brilliant;
  • she is very good;
  • extremely clever;
  • her advice, both written and oral, is really thorough;
  • appropriately persistent in court;
  • very competent and thorough;
  • extremely good analytically;
  • particularly good with intricate legal complexities;
  • as a negotiator she comes up with straightforward solutions which everyone else wishes they had thought of;
  • her advocacy is authoritative and persuasive;
  • establishes a good rapport with judges;
  • incredibly bright, measured, thorough and pragmatic;
  • a very diligent and focused practitioner;
  • very credible and exceptionally bright;
  • an exceptionally calm advocate;
  • bright, keen and extremely user-friendly;
  • a straight down the line, no-nonsense advocate, who is building a highly impressive practice;
  • unflappable under pressure;
  • expertise in high-profile administrative and public law;
  • has a broad public law background;
  • junior of choice for public law work from a healthcare regulatory perspective;
  • she has very good knowledge of all of the elements of Court of Protection cases;
  • her knowledge of human rights law brings an added dimension to her Court of protection work;
  • popular with the Official Solicitor;
  • marked strength in deprivation of liberty matters and human rights issues;
  • a recognised leader on Court of Protection matters concerning health and welfare;
  • frequently instructed in medical treatment and deprivation of liberty cases;
  • a recognised expert on deprivation of liberty;
  • very much “on the ascendant” in the Court of Protection world; and
  • a practised barrister with much experience in often heart-rending medical cases.

publications:

Jervis on Coroners, Sweet & Maxwell, 14th Edition (2019), specialist editor

Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, Bloomsbury Professional, 3rd Edition (2016), co-author

UK Inquest Law Blog posts (various)

Inquest Law Reports (various)

Medical Law Reports (various)

Judicial review and the Rule of Law: Who is in control?, The Constitution Society, 2013, sole author

Select Committees and Coercive Powers – Clarity or Confusion?, The Constitution Society, 2012, co-author with Richard Gordon QC

privacy

Amy adopts and adheres to the provisions of her privacy notice which can be accessed here.

further information

For further details of Amy’s practice please click on the links to the left or contact a member of the clerking or client service team.

Bar Council Membership No: 44430
Registered Name: Amy Caroline Street
VAT Registration No: 848549377