Emily Duckworth

Practice:   

Commercial Litigation : sale of goods, contract disputes, consumer credit, banking, mortgages, guarantees, enforcement proceedings

Insolvency : bankruptcy and corporate insolvency

Real Property : easements, resulting and constructive trusts, proprietary estoppel claims, boundary disputes, nuisance and land-related negligence claims

Landlord and Tenant Law : possession claims, housing disrepair 

Profile:

Emily practises exclusively as a member of chambers' Chancery/Commercial group in the areas of commercial litigation, personal and corporate insolvency, property and landlord and tenant law.  She has advisory experience in all of these areas and regularly appears in the County Court and High Court on behalf of both institutional clients and private individuals.     

Emily has a particular interest in property law and is keen to develop her practice in this area.  Prior to undertaking pupillage at Kings Chambers in 2005-6 Emily worked as a research assistant in the Property, Family and Trust Law team at the Law Commission with particular responsibility for trust law projects.

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 Chancery Bar Association
Northern and North Eastern Circuits

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St Catharine's College, Cambridge

University College, Oxford

Law (MA) (BCL)

Rebecca Squire Scholarship, Lauterpacht Prize for International Law, Adderley Prize, Jacobson Prize, Mrs Payne (1610) Scholarship (prizes for performance in Law Tripos)

Princess Royal Scholarship, Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award (Inner Temple awards)

 

2003 (Inner Temple)

 

2006

Research Assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales, 2004-5

 

Working knowledge of French and German

 

                                                  

 


 

 

Emily Duckworth

Year of Call:  2003

Specialises In:
Chancery & Commercial

Clerked by:
 Harry Young

 

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