Junior counsel
LEGAL 500 -UK Bar 2025
“Emilia is a fantastic barrister, helpful and positive, and forms a clear opinion on highly technical issues and strategies”.
Emilia has a busy Chancery practice and is ranked as a “Rising Star” for private wealth and probate in the Legal 500 UK Bar 2025. She accepts instructions across the spectrum of private wealth disputes, including those relating to:
- Wills, probate and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975;
- The administration of estates, including claims by and against personal representatives;
- Trusts disputes (both on and offshore), acting for trustees, beneficiaries and third parties;
- Interests in property, including proprietary estoppel and common intention constructive trusts disputes;
- The Court of Protection, with a focus on property and affairs;
- Tax, both in relation to private clients and in litigation before the tax tribunals; and
- Art and cultural property.
Recent cases include:
- Bond v Webster [2024] EWHC 1972, a high-profile contentious probate trial taking place over six weeks in the High Court, in which Emilia (led by Penelope Reed KC) acted for two of the children of a well-known racing and tyre tycoon Reg Bond in their successful challenge to his will on the grounds of lack of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval.
- Swissindependent Trustees SA v Sofer [2024] EWHC 1543 (Ch), in a Public Trustee v Cooper application to wind up several trusts.
- Fisher v Fassis (27 March 2024), a three-day ToLATA trial in the Central London County Court acting for a cohabitee in his successful claim for a 50% beneficial interest in the family home.
- Fisher v HMRC [2023] UKSC 4; [2023] 3 W.L.R. 1113, appearing before the Supreme Court as part of HMRC’s counsel team in long-running tax litigation concerning the application of the transfer of assets abroad regime.
