London Bar
Construction
Leading junior3Emma Healiss – Keating Chambers ‘Emma is excellent to work with. She is responsive and easy to work with, as well as being technically excellent.’
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Emma Healiss
Keating Chambers, London
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Position
Emma Healiss specialises in domestic and international construction, energy and professional negligence disputes. She is described as an “exceptional” and “first-class” barrister and has recently been recognised as Construction and Energy Junior of the Year by Legal 500.
Emma is ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners in construction, energy and professional negligence. She is recommended as an “extremely proactive” barrister with an “easy personable style” who “has an exceptional commercial stance and provides commercial focused and innovative advice to clients”. Emma is also commended for her advocacy skills and is praised for cross examining “to the level of a barrister far more senior than her”. Emma’s excellence in advocacy was recognised by her appointment to the Attorney General’s C Panel in 2021.
Emma has developed a strong domestic and international practice. Of late, she has worked on a number of cases involving fire safety issues, including Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v Lendlease Construction (Europe) Ltd & Others, the only construction case to feature in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022, and Emma acted as junior counsel to bereaved families, survivors and former residents in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Emma has also been led in a number of substantial arbitrations involving projects in Africa, the Middle East, Kazakhstan, the UK and Ireland.
Emma is also frequently instructed as sole counsel in TCC trials, adjudication proceedings and other matters. Recent examples of Emma’s reported cases include Mallino Developments Ltd v Essex Demolition Contractors Ltd [2022] EWHC 1418 (TCC), a TCC trial in which Emma represented the successful defendant, and Croda Europe Limited v Optimus Services Ltd [2021] EWHC 332 (TCC), adjudication enforcement proceedings concerning the proper interpretation of NEC3 adjudication provisions.
Emma is a contributor to Keating on Construction Contracts and Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering.
Career
Called to the Bar (2014); Pupil, Keating Chambers (2015 - 2016); Tenant, Keating Chambers (2016 to date).
Languages
French (conversational)
Memberships
SCL, SCL Astra, TECBAR
Leisure
Emma enjoys playing netball in a weekly league, is a keen skier and likes to bake in her spare time.
Mentions
London Bar
Energy
Leading junior4Emma Healiss – Keating Chambers 'Extremely competent and to the point, Emma consistently provides high-quality advice.’
London Bar
Professional negligence
Leading junior5Emma Healiss –Keating Chambers ‘Emma has strength in construction matters. She is excellent to work with.’
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