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Emma specialises in inquests and inquiries, judicial review, human rights and civil liberties, data protection and information law and personal injury.

Emma specialises in inquests and inquiries, judicial review, human rights and civil liberties, data protection and information law and personal injury.

Emma is on the Attorney General’s A Panel of Counsel (having been on the B and C Panels previously). She sits as an Assistant Coroner for the City of London.

Emma is currently instructed as counsel to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry and the UK Covid-19 Inquiry (Module 3). Previously, she acted for the Department of Health and Social Care in the Infected Blood Inquiry. Other notable cases include the resumed inquests into the deaths of Raneem Oudeh and Khaola Saleem (for the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police), R (Skelton) v Senior Coroner for West Sussex [2020] EWHC 2813 (Admin) (for the Chief Constable of Sussex Police) and the fresh inquests into the deaths of Cheryl James and Sean Benton at Deepcut Barracks (for the Ministry of Defence).

Emma acts for a wide range of clients including government departments, police forces, prisons, NHS Trusts, healthcare providers and families.

Emma won The Legal 500 'Junior of the Year' award 2024.

Emma is a regular contributor of articles, commentary and talks across all of her practice areas. She writes for 5 Essex Chambers' newsletters ‘Insight: Inquests and Inquiries’ and ‘The Data Brief’. She is a Gray’s Inn advocacy trainer.

Please visit the 5 Essex Chambers website for Emma’s profile, which sets out full details of her practice including relevant work of note.