Emma was admitted to practice in 2013 and called to the Bar in 2024.
Emma accepts briefs in all areas of law, with a particular focus on criminal, administrative and commercial law.
Immediately prior to her call to the Bar, Emma was a Senior Associate in the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group at Clayton Utz. Emma acted in representative proceedings and financial services regulatory matters, and prepared witnesses attending trials and ASIC examinations.
Emma is also experienced in conducting prosecutions as a Federal Prosecutor at the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. Emma appeared regularly as a solicitor advocate in sentences, bail applications and severity appeals, and conducted Local Court hearings, and instructed Counsel in trials in the District Court of NSW, and in appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal.
As a government lawyer at the Attorney-General’s Department, Emma advised on administrative law matters in the processing of extradition and mutual assistance requests in the context of international criminal investigations and prosecutions.