Meet the team
Emma Jones
Emma practises in the field of public law and human rights; clinical negligence; and claims by people who have been abused. Emma’s ability to think outside of the box and commitment to take cases that others feel are too risky, make her an innovative & excellent lawyer.
Emma qualified in October 2002, following a joint traineeship with Scott-Moncrieff Harbour & Sinclair and Leigh Day & Co. On qualification, Emma remained at Leigh Day & Co in the Human Rights Department until March 2007. She then moved to Mind, the leading mental health charity where she took up the post of Head of Legal. Emma joined Bolt Burdon Kemp in May 2008. Having begun her training contract on the day the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, Emma has always been a champion of the individual’s human rights.
Whilst at Scott-Moncrieff Harbour and Sinclair, Emma specialised in mental health law, public law and human rights. At Leigh Day & Co, she spent six months training with Sarah Leigh, one of the foremost solicitors in clinical negligence. During this time Emma assisted on a number of high value, complex clinical negligence cases. In March 2002, Emma moved to the Human Rights Department, where she stayed following qualification. Emma had a varied caseload including, psychiatric clinical negligence, free standing Human Rights Act claims, judicial review, best interests cases, elderly client cases and abuse law.
Whilst at Mind, Emma was influential in obtaining an amendment to the draft Coroners' Bill to include detained patients as a group that would be entitled to a mandatory inquest as are those detained in custody, or prison. She also intervened on behalf of Mind in cases in the Court of Appeal.
Emma is a member of APIL and an APIL accredited Litigator. She is also a member of the Human Rights Lawyers' Association and a volunteer on Liberty's advice line for the public.
Emma's involvement in notable cases have included:
Savage v S Essex NHS Partnership Trust [2007] EWCA Civ 1375, Times, 9 January 2008
Ewen (on behalf of the estate of RR) v Hounslow PCT [2004]
R (Wilkinson) v Broadmoor RMO (1) MHAC (2), [2002] 1 WLR 419
R (H) v Mental Health Review Tribunal, [2002] Q.B. 1
Emma enjoys socialising, travel, reading and sports. However due to the fact that she has a tendency to be accident prone her participation tends to be more watching sport rather than playing. Emma’s ambition to become a world famous ballet dancer ended at the tender age of five when it was realised that her second toe was longer than her big toe, and therefore, she would be unable to stand on her points.
emmajones@boltburdonkemp.co.uk
020 7288 4827