Williams was born in
Portsmouth, England and attended
King's College London, graduating with a
first-class LLB degree in 1984. She was
called to the bar at
Gray's Inn in 1985 and was in practice from 1987, specialising in
civil liberties,
judicial review and
employment discrimination; she practised from and was deputy head of chambers of
Doughty Street Chambers. She appeared before the
inquests into the
Hillsborough disaster and was successful in
Miriam O'Reilly's
age discrimination case against the
BBC. In 1997, she married Trevor Bragg and together they have a son and a daughter. == References ==