Emily Betts

Practice Areas

Emily is an experienced commercial barrister specialising in all aspects of commercial and property law. She has particular expertise in areas such as commercial fraud, shareholder/company disputes and secured lending.

Emily is an experienced trial advocate, both as sole counsel and as a junior to leading counsel, and has appeared in multi week trials in both the Commercial Court and the Chancery Division. The legal directories note she is “an exceptional lawyer with very strong advocacy skills”.

Also renowned for being “hard-working, personable and really bright”, she is seen as “a go to junior: there is no client or issue that she cannot deal with.”

Professional Memberships

-Professional associations

-Chancery Bar Association

-COMBAR

-Property Bar Association

-London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association

-Young International Arbitration Group

-ArbitralWomen

Publications

Contributor to Paul Reed KC’s Construction All Risks Insurance, Third edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2021.

Experience

International

Emily advises on issues of private international law in the context of both commercial litigation and arbitration.

Relevant work:

-Advising on application to serve out of the jurisdiction in Kenya.

-Advising UK based third party litigation funder in relation to litigation in California.

-Advising on the timing of an application for permission to service out of jurisdiction (in the US).

-Instructed as junior counsel in an application for an anti-suit injunction in the Commercial Court in relation to ongoing proceedings in Saudi Arabia concerning the application of Article 34 of the Recast Brussels Regulation.