Year of Call: 2012
“Emma is going to be an absolute superstar. She is frighteningly intelligent, and one of a rare breed of counsel that cuts across the family and chancery division. She is extremely intelligent, and has phenomenal drafting skills.”
Emma has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on domestic and offshore trust/probate litigation, civil fraud, and company disputes. She also advises and appears as specialist Chancery counsel in financial remedy proceedings. Emma is often instructed to act as sole counsel in cases in the High Court and the County Court. She is also regularly instructed as junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery litigation, both onshore and offshore, and has previously appeared (ad hoc) as junior counsel in the Supreme Court of Bermuda.
Emma is ranked in Legal 500, Chambers UK Bar and Chambers High Net Worth. She was named Chancery Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2020 and she was also named in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2019, which described her reputation as "superb". She has in addition featured in Legal Week's Private Client Global Elite: Ones to Watch for the past two years and Legal Week's Stars at the Bar 2017, where she was listed as "highly recommended".
MA in Law, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, including a year at Regensburg University, Germany (First class)
LLM in International Commercial Law, University College London (Distinction)
BPTC, Kaplan Law School (Outstanding; ranked top in the law school)
Former visiting tutor and examiner in the Law of Trusts at King’s College London
Chancery Bar Association
COMBAR
German, French
Emma Claire Hargreaves
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Award for Overall Best Student in the BPTC, Kaplan Law School, 2012
Award for Outstanding Achievement in the BPTC, Major Scholarship, and Duke of Edinburgh Entrance award, Inner Temple, 2011 - 2012
Scholarship, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, 2009 - 2010
Fairest Prize for Law (for best performance in the Law Tripos), Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, 2010
Chambers and Partners
Junior of the Year: Chancery