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Katharine Diamond

General Counsel

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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 as:

  • the first Director at the Pubs Code Adjudicator
  • senior advisory lawyer in the Department for Energy and Climate change
  • senior advisory lawyer in the Department for Culture Media and Sport
  • 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.

Responsible for:

Katharine is responsible for the following areas of the Commission's work:

• leading the Commission’s in-house legal team • leadership role as a member of the Commission’s Executive Team • responsible for the delivery of all of the Commission’s legal work • advising the Commission’s Executive Team and Board.

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