JUDICIAL AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Deputy Costs Judge of the Supreme Court (Deputy Master) (2006- Present)
Deputy District Judge (South Eastern Circuit) (Costs) (2007- Present)
Deputy Adjudicator of HM Land Registry (Costs) (2007- Present)
Judicial Assistant to the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (1997)

MEMBERSHIPS

International Association of Women Judges
Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee
Administrative Law Bar Association

Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple

Associate member Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia

PRACTICE AREAS

Landlord and Tenant and Housing
Including private and public sector residential leases, commercial leases, disrepair claims and homelessness. Author of various Landlord and Tenant and Homelessness Guides in Part D of the White Book.

Costs
Advice on costs matters, especially contentious points of principle, technical aspects and costs appeals and applications at all levels. Dr Williams’ contributions to the White Book include aspects of personal injury costs and guides to costs procedure in Part D.

Property Law & General Common Law
Including real property, mortgagee possessions, boundary disputes, probate and Inheritance Act work and general common law.

RECOMMENDATIONS
The Legal 500 has listed Dr Williams for Costs litigation: “Dr Victoria Williams … is described as having ‘truly exceptional knowledge of procedure and law’ and ‘she always has the correct answer’.”

Legal Experts 2008: listed under Costs.

BOOKS (AS AUTHOR)
The Civil Procedure Handbook (2006  to present date annually) - Oxford University Press
The Surveillance and Intelligence Law Handbook (2006) - Oxford University Press
Civil Procedure Handbooks (2004 and 2005) - Oxford University Press
The Fast Track Practice (1999) – Sweet and Maxwell                       

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Personal Injury Pleadings (2008) Sweet and Maxwell.           
Author/editor of The White Book (Sweet and Maxwell) since 1999.
Former General Editor of The Personal Injury Claims Manual (December 2004 – July 2006).
Current Law Statutes, including the Current Law Statutes commentary to the Access to Justice Act 1999.

ARTICLES AND PAPERS
Privacy Impact & the Social Aspects of Public Surveillance (Evidence for the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution's inquiry into the impact of surveillance and data collection upon the privacy of citizens and their relationship with the state). Longer version published in the Covert Policing Review, 2008.

EDUCATION
BA in Experimental Psychology, Christ Church, Oxford
D.Phil. Experimental Psychology, Christ Church, Oxford. Research into aspects of computer models of human visual depth perception
Christopher Welch Scholar, Oxford University
Dip. Law (City University)
                        
CASES OF INTEREST SINCE 1999

Hughes v Borodex Limited [2009] All ER (D) 15 (Apr) Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court, 25 March 2009 All England Reporter. 
Long leases – Housing Act 1988 – security of tenure – statutory construction – tenant’s improvements – rent

Re E [2009] EWHC 597 (Admin) QBD, Administrative Court, 4 March 2009
Terrorism control orders – withdrawal – costs principles

Falmouth House Ltd and another v Rahmizadeh and Others [2008] All ER (D) 162 (Feb)
Long leases – leasehold enfranchisement – valuation – determination – estoppel - costs

Dix v Townend and Frizzell [2008] EWHC 90117 (Costs), [2008] APP.L.R. 06/30
Costs judgment on issues of Champerty, maintenance, public policy and the definition of Insurance under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. 

Finster v Arriva [2007] EWHC 90070 (Costs), [2007] ADR.L.R. 02/07
Costs judgment on issues in relation to alleged exaggeration of claim and proportionality.

Murtezi v Home Office, SCCO ref. 050212 21 July 2005.  (As advocate)
Costs - Meaning of “win” in CFA agreement - Whether alleged breaches of CFA regulations invalidate fee agreement - Whether “materially adverse effect” on protection afforded to client.

Anthony Bryant Continental Cheeses v Ginger (t/a Titanic Cheeses) [2003] 3 CL 65  (CPR)
Proportionality in relation to the setting aside of judgments and charging orders.

R v CICB ex parte “T” [2001] PIQR Q2 (As written advocate)
Judicial review against refusal by the CICB to award monetary compensation for injury arising from criminal act.

Tollis v Stansfield & Stansfield [1999] CLY p196 para. 560
Striking out under the CPR - Professional negligence.

Prior to 1999, cases include Thai Trading v Taylor, Tierney v Mavadia and Others, LB Southwark v Kennedy