Ed Williams QC is a barrister at Cloisters Chambers, and co-founder and director of Assurety, a witness preparation consultancy.

In 2020, Depp lost his defamation case against the Sun newspaper, a British tabloid who had made domestic abuse allegations against him. Fast forward two years and this time Depp has succeeded in a second defamation claim, this time in the U.S. against his ex-wife and fellow actor, Amber Heard.