About
Emma also deals with contractual and development disputes, specialising in rights of light, restrictive covenants and Electronic Communications Code issues, including the removal of telecoms masts. Her work is advisory – to avoid and/or settle disputes - as well as involving the conduct of litigation.
Emma lectures widely on property litigation issues and writes for various publications, including EG. Emma also summarises cases dealing with restrictive covenants for the Property Law UK website. Emma is an honorary member of Arbrix and a member of the RICS Telecommunications Forum. She is also the former Chair of the Training and Education Committee of The Property Litigation Association and has sat as a member of the Steering Group of the RICS Dilapidations Forum and the South East Committee of Women in Property.
Emma was ranked in Band 1 for Real Estate Litigation in Chambers 2024 and is recognised in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame.
Emma is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Successfully defending an application under section 84 of the LPA 1925 by a long leasehold tenant who sought to vary its lease user restrictions. The decision in Edgware Road (2015) Limited v. Church Commissioners for England [2020] UKUT 0104 (LC) preserved the Church Commissioners’ ability to control the management of their estate.
- Acting for a world-renowned luxury hotel in an application before the First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chambers) to seek to reinstate the protection intended by certain restrictive covenants which were mistakenly omitted from the Land Registry title of a neighbouring business
- Securing vacant possession of a rooftop of a block of flats in Wembley against a number of telecoms operators, to allow the block to be sold for redevelopment.
- Advising on the breach of a Development Agreement by a local authority and pursuing the matter through arbitration, eventually leading to settlement of the dispute via mediation.
