Emma commenced pupillage in October 2023 and is interested in all areas of Chambers’ work, including employment, equality and discrimination, public law and human rights, commercial, sports law, clinical negligence and personal injury.

Emma has a particular interest in whistleblowing law and crossover cases involving employment, freedom of expression and/or media & information law.

Before starting pupillage, Emma worked as a senior legal adviser for whistleblowing charity Protect, advising clients on their whistleblowing rights, undertaking employment tribunal claim casework and training employers on whistleblowing law and investigations.

During her legal studies, Emma volunteered for the Free Representation Unit, representing social security claimants in their appeals; Hackney Migrant Centre, advocating for migrants’ rights; Protect and Can’t Buy My Silence, creating films to make the law on whistleblowing and NDAs more accessible, and Gray’s Inn’s Griffin Law project, teaching parliamentary debating to schoolchildren.

Prior to coming to the bar, Emma worked for more than a decade as a professional actress, musician, and musical director, including shows at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and in the West End, at regional theatres across the UK, Europe and the USA, and for Paramount Pictures, Channel 5 and BBC Radio 3.

Qualifications

Bar Course, City Law School (Distinction, 86%), 2023

GDL, University of Law (Distinction, 87%), 2021

MA Theatre, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, 2012

BA English Language and Literature (European), University of Leeds (First Class), 2010

Awards

Gray’s Inn Bedingfield Scholarship (Bar Course merit-based / top award), 2022

City Law School Bar Vocational Studies Scholarship, 2022

University of Law Career-changer Scholarship (GDL merit-based / full-fee), 2020

Semi-finalist, University of Law GDL Moot, 2021

Balancing protection of reputation with freedom of expression: does the Defamation Act 2013 reverse the ‘chilling effect’ previous defamation law had on freedom of expression?, Gray’s Inn Student Law Journal, 2022

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