Amanda Hadkiss
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Media & Entertainment
Band 4
About
Provided by Amanda Hadkiss
Practice Areas
Amanda specialises in media and entertainment disputes. She has been instructed on some of the leading media and entertainment cases at the Bar of recent years, including Eva Green v (1) White Lantern Film (Britannica) Ltd (2) SMC Speciality Finance LLC [2023] EWHC 930; Warner Music UK Ltd & Ors v TuneIn Inc [2023] EWHC 2875 (Ch); and Declan Colgan v Universal Music Group (2024).
She receives instructions from clients from across the sector, including record companies, producers, broadcasters, publishers, collecting societies, music artists, artist managers, actors, film/TV companies, theatre companies, visual artists, content creators, and from individuals with a high profile within the media.
Amanda is able to draw upon her wider experience as a commercial chancery litigator when advising on disputes within the media and entertainment sector, including her knowledge of contractual disputes, intellectual property law, company law, insolvency law, and partnership law. Whilst in practice she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice at the University of Oxford and was awarded a Distinction.
Full website profile available at: https://www.maitlandchambers.com/our-people/profile/amanda-hadkiss
Career
Called to the Bar 2014
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
COMBAR
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Amanda Hadkiss of Maitland Chambers has appeared in several prominent cases concerning the film and music industries. She is an excellent choice for media-based contract disputes and related matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is superb. Her advice is extremely commercial, she is very calm and she sees the wood from the trees."
"Amanda is very bright, but she also has a very nice and easy manner and is very relatable and low-key."
"She is superb. Her advice is extremely commercial, she is very calm and she sees the wood from the trees."
"Amanda is very bright, but she also has a very nice and easy manner and is very relatable and low-key."