Anna Dilnot QC has a broad commercial and Chancery practice and specialises particularly in conflicts of law and commercial fraud, in addition to which she has extensive experience in international arbitration and courtroom advocacy. Anna was appointed Queens Counsel following the 2020 competition. But she never had any “grand plan” to become a lawyer, much less to achieve the heady rank of silk. Anna says she came from an “ordinary background” with no family or friend connections to the law, didn’t know any lawyers and was the first in her family to attend university. Anna “fell into law by accident”, […]
Amanda Brown QC, a tax disputes lawyer and partner at KPMG Law, was appointed to silk in 2021. She becomes one of a tiny number of solicitor-advocates who have been appointed to silk who are not international arbitrators, coming as she does from a multi-disciplinary practice. As a higher-rights qualified lawyer, Amanda has appeared as an advocate at all tribunal and court levels having been the first lawyer in a UK accountancy firm to appear in the European Court of Justice. Amanda is also a CEDR accredited mediator and in 2014 she was appointed as a Fee Paid Judge in […]