Emma is a leading junior barrister, with a busy practice spanning all areas of public and human rights law (both domestic and international) as well as EU and competition law. She is regularly instructed in complex and high-profile litigation across her areas of practice and in a range of tribunals including the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court and Privy Council, the Court of Appeal and the Competition Appeal Tribunal. She is equally adept working as part of a team of counsel or as a sole advocate. Before being called to the Bar she practised as a solicitor for several years at a magic circle law firm.
Emma’s experience includes some of the most significant cases of recent years across her areas of practice. On the public and constitutional law side, her experience includes the high-profile challenge to the Rwanda removal policy; the judicial review of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024; the Heathrow third runway judicial review and the challenge by the End Violence Against Women Coalition to the CPS’ approach to the prosecution of rape. In the competition arena, she acts for Claimants, Defendants and regulators and has particular experience of group litigation, having acted in numerous collective proceeding claims.
Full professional details can be found at https://www.brickcourt.co.uk/our-people/profile/emma-mockford.
Emma was called to the Bar in the 2016 and has practised from Brick Court Chambers since 2017. Prior to coming to the Bar, Emma worked as a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP for several years.
She is appointed to both the Attorney General’s panel of civil counsel (B panel) and panel of Special Advocates and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel (A panel).
2016: Bar Transfer Test, BPP Law School
2013-15: MA in EU Competition Law, King’s College London
2011: Legal Practitioners’ Course, BPP Law School
2007-10: BA in Jurisprudence (Law), University of Oxford (Hertford College) (First Class, All Souls Prize for Best Performance in Public International Law, Final Honour Schools)