Emma Tattersdill > Freeths LLP > Leicester, England > Lawyer Profile
Freeths LLP Offices
ONE COLTON SQUARE
LEICESTER
LE1 1QH
England
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Emma Tattersdill
Work Department
Planning and Environment
Position
Emma specialises in environmental law including environmental permitting, contaminated land, water and air pollution, odour and noise issues, waste, protected sites and species. As well as assisting clients with all aspects of environmental regulation and permitting, environmental litigation, enforcement action and/or prosecution for environmental offences, Emma advises on environmental constraints within the planning regime including Environmental Impact Assessment. Emma regulary acts for clients in claims for damages or injunctions and in judicial review proceedings and statutory appeal proceedings. Notable reported cases include: Tarmac Aggregates Ltd, R (on the application of) v The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs & Anor [2015] EWCA Civ 1149
Career
Qualified September 1998. Edge Ellison (solicitor) September 1998- September 2000; Eversheds (associate) October 2000-December 2005; Marrons (principal solicitor) January 2006-August 2013; Freeths (legal director) from August 2013 to September 2015; promoted to partner at Freeths in September 2015 to date.
Languages
French
Education
Educated at the University of Leicester (LL.B (Hons) Law with French), Universite Robert Schumann Strasbourg (Diplome D’Etudes Juridiques Francaises) and College of Law, Guildford.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Real estate > Planning and environment
(Leading individuals)Freeths LLP provides comprehensive advice regarding both planning and environmental issues and offers a planning consultancy service in order to advise clients on development projects from inception through to completion. The ‘helpful, knowledgeable and proactive‘ team advises on all issues relating to development planning, provides assistance in environmental compliance matters and represents clients in judicial review challenges and environmental civil litigation. Paul Brailsford has an ‘exceptionally wide range of knowledge regarding planning and the appeals process‘ and Emma Tattersdill has knowledge of environmental law, in particular in respect to waste regulation and environmental based civil litigation, which ‘is to the highest level‘. Clients note the ‘outstanding level of knowledge on niche environmental topics‘.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals - East Midlands > Real estate > Planning and environment
- Planning and environment - East Midlands > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Family
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate