Emily Campbell

Practice Overview

Emily's practice encompasses a broad range of chancery and commercial work, and she is particularly experienced in both the litigation and advisory sides of the law relating to pension schemes, trusts, estates and taxation. Whilst her practice has an emphasis on matters involving complex technical issues, such as those with a significant actuarial or mathematical content, she has a reputation for giving clear, practical and commercial advice.

On the pensions side, she has significant experience of pensions litigation (including regulatory work, professional negligence and rectification claims) and she regularly advises on issues including scheme funding, the scope of powers in pension schemes and the effect of mistakes in pension scheme documents.

Complementing her pensions practice, Emily has a broad private client practice. She acts in a range of contentious and non-contentious trust and estate litigation, including cases with a foreign element. She advises on a wide range of issues with an emphasis on private wealth planning, tax and the drafting of trust documentation.

Professional Reputation

In the 2009 edition of The Legal 500, Emily is recommended for pensions and in personal tax, trusts and probate. She is/has been described as a '"star junior", "erudite and approachable", "practical and thorough", "bright, responsive and commercial" and as having an "extremely incisive legal mind" and a "clear and incisive intellect".'

In the 2009 edition of Chambers & Partners, Emily is recommended for pensions and for traditional Chancery. She is/has been described as '"a sparkling advocate with a lot of flair", "solid, capable and a safe pair of hands", impressive "with work on complex matters", as having "a sharp eye for detail" and "academically first-rate and tenacious and courageous in court".'

Qualifications

• MA (Oxon), BCL
  
• First in Jurisprudence. Christ Church, Oxford

Memberships

• Chancery Bar Association
• Association of Pension Lawyers
• ACTAPS
• Revenue Bar Association
• STEP

Publications

• Numerous articles for publications including Private Client Business, The Pension Lawyer, ACTAPS newsletter, British Tax Review, Pensions Management, Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal, Solicitor's Journal, Christies Bulletin for Professional Advisors, The Restitution Law Review and Charity Finance;
  
  
• Author of Changing the Terms of Trusts (Butterworths, 2002).
  
  
• Contributor to International Trust Laws, ed Glasson and The International Trust (Jordans).
  
  
• Contributor to pensions chapters in forthcoming edition of Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies (OUP, 2010).
  
  
• Contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England, Volume 42 (1999), Settlements.
  
  
• Emily is on the editorial board of the Wills and Trusts Law Reports.