Events / Webinars
Wilberforce Birmingham Property Seminar 2024
Thursday 7th March 2024 | 3pm - 5.55pm, followed by drinks
The Grand Hotel, Birmingham
Free to attend | 2.0 CPD
View moreEmer’s practice focuses on property and commercial disputes. She also advises on related professional liability matters.
Emer offers intelligent, thorough and practical assistance. She prides herself on being user-friendly and approachable, and she enjoys working as part of the team.
As an advocate, Emer is both engaging and tenacious. Emer regularly appears in the High Court, the County Court and before a variety of tribunals, both on her own account and as a junior.
She is highly skilled in drafting and advisory work, and has worked on a significant number of high-profile, complex pieces of litigation.
Emer is ranked as a Leading Junior in Chambers Global (Dispute Resolution: Commercial Chancery), Chambers & Partners (in the Chancery: Commercial and Real Estate Litigation fields) and The Legal 500 (Property Litigation).
Property
Emer has a broad property practice encompassing both real property and landlord and tenant matters. Much of Emer’s property work is undertaken on her own account, although she also has considerable experience of acting as part of a large team on complex, long-running matters. Emer appeared in the Supreme Court in the landmark case of 11-13 Randolph Crescent Limited v Dr Duval [2020] UKSC 18, led by Joanne Wicks KC.
Emer is currently ranked as a Leading Junior in the Property Litigation field by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
Emer is a member of the Property Bar Association.
Landlord and Tenant
Emer acts in the full range of landlord and tenant matters. Many of Emer’s instructions arise out of business tenancies and matters relating to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. She also has considerable experience advising on covenant disputes and issues relating to alienation, disrepair, dilapidations and forfeiture.
11-13 Randolph Crescent Limited v Dr Duval [2020] UKSC 18
Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Limited & Others v The European Medicines Agency [2019] EWHC 921 (Ch)
Confidential Arbitration (2019)
Carillion Energy Services Limited (in liquidation) v Dooba Investments II Limited (2019)
Confidential: Various
Development disputes and joint ventures
Emer has considerable experience advising on and acting in disputes concerning development contracts, overage, conditional contracts, options, rights of pre-emption and property joint ventures. Some notable cases are listed below:
Clutterbuck v Cleghorn [2015] EWHC 2558 (Ch), [2017] EWCA Civ 137, [2018] EWHC 2125 (Ch)
Confidential (2018)
Confidential (2017)
Clutterbuck v Al Amoudi [2014] EWHC 383 (Ch), [2015] EWCA Civ 1593, [2017] EWHC 1127 (Ch)
Neil John Biggs v Countryside Properties (Bicester) Limited (2016)
Confidential (2016)
Real property
Emer has advised in numerous disputes relating to easements, restrictive covenants, contracts of sale, mortgages and the registration of land. She also has considerable experience of disputes relating to the ownership of land and raising issues of constructive trust, proprietary estoppel and unjust enrichment. Notable cases include the following:
Cayman Shores v Registrar of Lands (2021) (Cayman Islands)
Willmott v Kimchi (2021)
Confidential (2019)
Confidential (2016)
Telecoms
Emer has advised on a large number of issues arising out of the Electronic Communications Code. Recent experience includes advising an infrastructure provider in relation to the categorisation of their various sites for Code purposes.
Emer is a joy to work with and seriously impresses clients.
Very bright, hardworking and user-friendly - a future star of the bar.
…very responsive and easy to work with. She is robust and solutions orientated and not fazed when faced with aggressive litigation tactics. When working with Emer you know you’re in safe hands.
Decisive, with a superb grasp of the detail and her client’s wider strategic objectives. Emer has a straightforward no-nonsense manner which gets to the heart of the issue in the blink of an eye.
The crème de la crème of the junior property Bar; Emer is decisive, with a superb grasp of the detail and her client’s wider strategic objectives.
Events / Webinars
Thursday 7th March 2024 | 3pm - 5.55pm, followed by drinks
The Grand Hotel, Birmingham
Free to attend | 2.0 CPD
View moreRecent Cases
International / offshore, Property
Jonathan Seitler KC | Emer Murphy
Thursday 9 March 2023
External Conferences
Monday 13 September 2021 | 12.30 - 1.30pm
Online, Zoom
Speakers:
Emer Murphy
Events / Webinars
Tuesday 15 June 2021 | 9.30am - 10.30am
Online, Zoom
1.0 CPD
View moreCommercial disputes
Emer has a broad business and commercial practice, and provides drafting, advisory and advocacy services in a range of commercial sectors.
Emer is ranked as a leading junior in the Chancery Commercial field by Chambers & Partners and Chambers Global.
Emer is a member of the Commercial Bar Association and the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association.
Notable cases include the following:
Clutterbuck v Cleghorn [2015] EWHC 2558 (Ch), [2017] EWCA Civ 137, [2018] EWHC 2125 (Ch)
Confidential (2018)
Confidential (2018)
Clutterbuck v Al Amoudi [2014] EWHC 383 (Ch), [2015] EWCA Civ 1593, [2017] EWHC 1127 (Ch)
Confidential (2017)
Emer is a joy to work with and seriously impresses clients.
Very bright, hardworking and user-friendly - a future star of the bar.
…very responsive and easy to work with. She is robust and solutions orientated and not fazed when faced with aggressive litigation tactics. When working with Emer you know you’re in safe hands.
Decisive, with a superb grasp of the detail and her client’s wider strategic objectives. Emer has a straightforward no-nonsense manner which gets to the heart of the issue in the blink of an eye.
The crème de la crème of the junior property Bar; Emer is decisive, with a superb grasp of the detail and her client’s wider strategic objectives.
Events / Webinars
Wednesday 18 April 2018 | 12.30pm - 5.30pm followed by drinks
The Grange, 10 Godliman St, London EC4V 5AJ
£120 + VAT | 3.5 CPD
View moreProfessional liability
Emer provides advice and litigation assistance in professional negligence matters arising out of her core areas of practice: property and commercial disputes.
Emer has particular experience of the following:
Notable cases include the following:
Confidential (2019)
Confidential (2018)
Twin Benefits v Barker (2017)
Mortgage Agency Services Number One Limited (Mansol) v Cripps Harries LLP [2016] EWHC 387 (Ch)
Clutterbuck v HSBC and others (2015)
Ridgewood Properties Group Ltd v Kilpatrick Stockton and others [2014] EWHC 2502 (Ch) [2014] PNLR 31
Emer is a joy to work with and seriously impresses clients.
Very bright, hardworking and user-friendly - a future star of the bar.
…very responsive and easy to work with. She is robust and solutions orientated and not fazed when faced with aggressive litigation tactics. When working with Emer you know you’re in safe hands.
Decisive, with a superb grasp of the detail and her client’s wider strategic objectives. Emer has a straightforward no-nonsense manner which gets to the heart of the issue in the blink of an eye.
The crème de la crème of the junior property Bar; Emer is decisive, with a superb grasp of the detail and her client’s wider strategic objectives.
Events / Webinars
Monday 23 November 2015 | 8.45am - 1.00pm (registration from 8.15am)
Double Tree Hilton - Tower of London, 7 Pepys StreetLondonEC3N 4AF
£75 + VAT | 3.0 CPD
View moreRegistered name: Miss Emer Maire Murphy
VAT number: 998402278