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Emma is a confident advocate who is building a practice in all of Chambers’ core areas. She has acted for clients from central and local government, the private sector and NGOs and, while still a pupil, she appeared unled at a rights of way inquiry, as well as in the Magistrates’ Court and the Crown Court.

Emma is developing a busy practice across Chambers’ core practice areas, with a particular focus on environmental law, public law, planning law, highways law and compulsory purchase.

She has swiftly developed advocacy experience, acting unled in planning and rights of way inquiries, in the High Court, Crown Court and Magistrates Court.  She is also regularly instructed by a range of clients, from central government to NGOs, both led and unled. Notable recent experience includes acting unled for the Vale of Glamorgan at a six day planning inquiry.

• BA Jurisprudence (Oxford)

• BCL (Oxford)

• MPhil in Law (Oxford) 

English

• Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)

• UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)

• Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA)

Emma has given a lecture in environmental law at the Central European University in Vienna. Her lecture covered the application of environmental human rights jurisprudence from the ECtHR domestically.

Emma has an MPhil degree from the University of Oxford. Her research considered public participation in large scale regeneration projects from a legal perspective, under the supervision of Dr Joanna Bell. She has also completed the BCL and holds a BA Jurisprudence, both from the University of Oxford.

Whilst at Oxford, Emma was involved a number of different legal research projects.

Emma co-authored a report on international human rights obligations when drafting domestic bills of rights bills for the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and Strathclyde University (Jun-Sep2022).

Emma led a research project for Oxford Pro Bono Publico into prosecutorial assistance in death penalty cases.

Emma also spent 5 months as a judicial assistant at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and maintains a keen interest in the intersection between environmental problems and human rights. Her recent blog on a case raising this issue can found here.