Emily McKechnie

Practice Overview

Emily's practice covers a wide range of general commercial and traditional chancery work. She has experience in all of chambers' main areas of work, including pensions, professional liability, trusts, company and insolvency law, financial services, contractual disputes and property-related work.

Emily appears regularly in the High Court and county courts, representing clients in interlocutory and final applications as well as at trial and on appeal.

In addition, Emily is experienced at giving advice in relation to a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.

Qualifications

• MA Law (First Class), St John's College, Cambridge
  
• LLM (First Class), St John's College, Cambridge (first class results obtained in all subjects: restitution, insolvency, corporate governance, and international commercial litigation)

Memberships

• Association of Pension Lawyers
• Chancery Bar Association
• COMBAR
• Bar Pro Bono Panel
• Free Representation Unit

Publications

'Pension trustees' duties of care and skill' (October 2009) Practical Law Company (a discussion of the duties of care and skill owed by pension trustees to scheme beneficiaries (with Jonathan Evans).

'Trust to the Future' (December 2007) New Law Journal Vol 157 (an examination of the definition of 'beneficial owner' in the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, with Michael Furness QC).

Scholarships & Appointments

• Emily was judicial assistant to Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, for the Michaelmas term 2006.
  
• Whytehead scholar, St John's College, Cambridge
  
• Wright prize, St John's College, Cambridge
  
• Hardwicke scholar, Lincoln's Inn
  
• Lord Denning scholar, Lincoln's Inn