Emily has a broad practice covering Chambers’ main practice areas. She frequently appears in the High Court and in county courts representing clients in all stages of litigation. Emily has also been instructed as junior counsel in several large cases with leaders in Chambers. She undertakes written advisory and drafting work, both contentious and non-contentious.

Emily’s experience includes:

Commercial Chancery

• Contractual disputes of a varying nature (including telecommunications providers, health care trusts, hire companies and investment advisors)
• Jurisdiction disputes under Regulation 44/2001
• Disputes arising out of the dissolution of partnerships

Company and Insolvency

• Bankruptcy and winding up petitions (including successfully defending an appeal to the High Court in an unusual bankruptcy and partnership voluntary arrangement case)
• Restraint of winding up petitions
• Transactions at undervalue and preference claims
• Private examinations under ss 236 and 366 Insolvency Act 1986
• Applications for possession and sale (including a successful appeal to the High Court in a case which also involved a transaction at undervalue)
• After acquired property applications
• Proof of Debt disputes
• Income payment orders
• IVAs and CVAs
• Challenges to office-holders’ fees
• Shareholder disputes

Property

• Possession proceedings against residential tenants of all varieties
• Business tenancies
• Mortgage possession proceedings
• Claims arising out of implied trusts and/or proprietary estoppels
• Easements
• Acting as junior counsel in an appeal to the Court of Appeal concerning a boundary dispute

Trusts and Estates

• Beddoe applications
• Applications concerning the construction of trust provisions
• Claims against executors
• Post-death variation of wills

Tax

• Acting as junior counsel in a two-week tax appeal concerning non-residence, heard by the First-Tier Tax Tribunal
• Professional negligence claims concerning tax advice

Public Law

• Possession proceedings against local authority tenants
• Injunction applications
• Section 204 Housing Act 1996 appeals

Emily graduated from University College London with a first class degree in Law and French Law, having spent her third year of study at Université Paris II where she gained a Licence en droit (droit public). Upon graduation in 2004, she was awarded the UCL Faculty of Laws Medal and Prize. Emily completed the Bar Vocational Course at BPP (graded “Outstanding”) and, whilst at Bar School, she returned to University College London as a part time tutor of Property Law. She is a Megarry, Lord Denning and Hardwicke scholar of Lincoln’s Inn.