Year of Call: 2009
Practice Areas
Emma specialises in Personal Injury, Inquests, and Civil Fraud. She has significant experience in the County Courts, where she acts for both claimants and defendants in Fast Track and Multi-Track matters. In the Coroner’s Courts, she has been instructed by insurers and local authorities.
Personal Injury
In addition to cases arising from road traffic accidents, Emma has been instructed in numerous occupier’s liability, public liability, employer’s liability, and defective product claims. She has acted in cases where holiday sickness and/or an accident occurred abroad (both within and outside the EU). She also has experience in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal.
Emma has a particular interest in the developing law relating to CAV (Connected and Autonomous Vehicles), often nicknamed “driverless” cars.
Inquests
Emma has acted for Interested Persons in complex and high-profile matters, which required a particularly sensitive and nuanced approach.
Civil Fraud
Emma is regularly instructed by both claimants and defendants in cases where fraud is suspected. She is well-versed in the thorough analysis of medical, financial, social media and other records that is typically required in such matters. She is also conversant with expert engineering evidence, having been involved with such cases for many years before coming to the Bar.
Regulatory Crime
Before coming to the Bar, Emma was a Trading Standards Officer for 15 years. She has an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of consumer protection and regulatory crime, and is available to act for both prosecutors and defendants in all types of regulatory matter, including Animal Health & Welfare, Food Hygiene, Consumer Protection, and Health & Safety.
Buchanan Prize (2009), Lincoln’s Inn
Secretary to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Appeals Committee
Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding), BPP Law School (2009)
Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation), BPP Law School (2007)
Diploma in Trading Standards (Jack Brudenall Prize), DTS Council (1996)
Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers
Health & Safety Lawyers Association
Personal Injury Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Italian (conversational level)
Emma Northey, instructed by Pamela Clarke of South London Legal Partnership, acted for a local authority social services department in this Article 2 Inquest, which sought to establish how and in what circumstances Sophie came by her death.
Read moreEmma Northey, instructed by Ian Williams of Keoghs for the Second Defendant. Finding of fundamental dishonesty against the Claimant, whose evidence about the accident circumstances was rejected by the judge and whose damages claim “frankly collapsed” under cross-examination (by both counsel for the First Defendant and counsel for the Second Defendant).
Read moreInstructed by Pamela Clarke of South London Legal Partnership, Emma acted for two primary schools in this Article 2 Inquest before Dame Linda Dobbs DBE.
Read moreInstructed by Katie Watmough of Keoghs for the Defendant. Finding of fundamental dishonesty against the Claimant. The Claimant was an intelligent man, who had reviewed the bundle carefully and anticipated many of the questions that would be put in cross-examination.
Read moreClaim dismissed. The judge was satisfied that the unusual circumstances in which the hire agreement came into being rendered it unenforceable against the Claimant, meaning that there was no loss to claim from the Defendant.
Claim dismissed. The Defendant’s submissions regarding both rate and period were preferred. The resulting sum was less than the Defendant’s interim payment.
Finding of fundamental dishonesty against the Claimant, whose two passenger witnesses had withdrawn their statements on the morning of the trial.
Read moreFinding of fundamental dishonesty against the Claimant, on the basis that he had not in fact sustained any personal injury in a very minor road traffic accident.
Read more23rd July 2019
On Monday evening Alex and Emma will be giving a seminar to the Transport Group of APIL: introducing the law of driverless vehicles, explaining the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 and examining some future challenges.
25th March 2019
Marcus Grant, Emma Northey and Elizabeth Gallagher spoke on different subjects at the Annual PIBA Conference.
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