Katharine Diamond
General Counsel
Katharine joined the Gambling Commission in January 2024.
Katharine is a barrister and was called to the Bar in 1998. Katharine has extensive experience in legal roles across government and arms-length bodies in a wide range of public law areas spanning litigation, advisory, legislative drafting, information law and regulatory disciplines. Katharine is a qualified arbitrator.
Katharine has held roles including:
- the first Director at the Pubs Code Adjudicator
- Senior advisory lawyer in the Department for Energy and Climate change
- Senior advisory lawyer in DCMS
- Advisory and Bill lawyer in the Cabinet Office
- employment litigation lawyer in the Government Legal Department.
Throughout her career Katharine has honed her craft in providing strategic advice in technical, complex and novel legal areas often at the intersection of public and private law; building, developing and leading cohesive and diverse teams in the advisory and regulatory fields.