Emma Jones joined Leigh Day & Co in October 2000. She completed one year of her training contract at the sepcialist mental health firm Scott-Moncrieff Harbour and Sinclair and one year at Leigh Day & Co. Emma spent six months training with Sarah Leigh and then moved to the Human Rights department. She qualified in October 2002 and remained a member of the human rights department until March 2007.
Emma left Leigh Day & Co to take up the position of Head of Legal at Mind, the national mental health charity. Whilst there Emma and the legal team intervened in the case of Savage in the Court of Appeal. She was also instrumental in helping to obtain an amendment to the then draft Coroner's Bill to relect the fact that detained individuals should include those detained under the Mental Health Act.
In July 2008, Emma returned to private practice with Bolt Burdon Kemp, where she set up a human rights and public law department.
Emma returned to the human rights department at Leigh Day & Co in September 2009, at which time she worked on bringing the Stafford Hospital group claims. She now specialises in human rights claims against hospitals, abuse of vulnerable individuals including children and the elderly, false imprisonment and asault claims and public law challenges.
Emma is an accedited APIL litigatator, a member of the Human Rights Lawers Association and the NAS legal network group.
Contact details:
Emma Jones
Solicitor
T: 020 7650 1200
E: ejones@leighday.co.uk