Gatehouse Chambers

Chambers Management

Amanda’s role as CEO of Gatehouse Chambers is to take a lead in the strategic development and management of chambers and to implement its business plan. She takes a key role with colleagues in developing business and long-lasting relationships with clients. She takes responsibility for the recruitment of and career development of the barristers and her staff team.

Amanda was previously the Private Secretary to the Director of Public Prosecutions and a caseworker in the Crown Prosecution Service, handling cases such as the second and successful appeal of the Birmingham Six, and the first corporate manslaughter prosecution following the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise.

Amanda was awarded Legal 500’s prestigious Senior Clerk/Chief Executive of the Year Award 2019.  She has sat on the panel of judges of the Women in Construction and Engineering Awards since 2018 and was featured in ADR ODR International’s Inspirational Women Series (2018). She won the Silver Award for Inspirational Woman of the Year at the 2015 Citywealth Power Women Awards and the Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Award 2013 (Non-Lawyer of the Year).

Amanda is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). She is an accredited ADR ODR mediator. In 2022 Amanda joined the Steering Committee of the Greener Litigation Pledge, an initiative to reduce the environmental impact of dispute resolution.

Amanda spends time mentoring and supporting people to increase their opportunities to access rewarding careers at or for the Bar. Amanda has spent many years building inclusive working environments to recruit and nurture talent.  She supports FreeBar, a forum focused on LGBTQ+ people and their allies.  She is a personal signatory to the ERA Pledge, a gender diversity initiative to promote equal representation in arbitration. Amanda is also an ambassador and mentor for the MB Diversity Leadership Foundation.

• Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD)

• Women in Property

• National Association of Women in Construction

• Legal Practice Managers’ Association (LPMA)

• Alumna of the Cambridge Judge Business School leadership programme

Outside work, Amanda and her husband split their time between central London and rural Suffolk, and spend their spare time and energy contributing to the politics and projects involving the environment, sustainability, food, farming and fun!