Emma Hughes

Practice Areas

Emma is a commercial junior with broad experience of high-value and complex commercial disputes both in litigation and in arbitration.

Emma’s practice spans a diverse range of complex commercial disputes both in litigation and in arbitration across 3VB’s practice areas.

Emma has considerable experience in aviation, civil fraud and banking and financial services disputes. Her recent and current instructions include large multi-party disputes and matters raising conflict of laws issues.

Before coming to the Bar, Emma studied law at the University of Cambridge graduating third in her year and receiving university prizes for Constitutional Law, EU Law and Conflict of Laws. Emma then read for the BCL at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a Distinction and the Peter Birks Restitution Law Prize. Emma subsequently taught Contract Law at St Hilda’s college (Oxford) and worked as a research assistant for Professor Chen-Wishart.

Emma maintains an academic interest in the law. Emma’s recent publications include a contribution to Rethinking Unjust Enrichment (OUP) (co-authored with Professor Chen-Wishart) which considers the law of unjust enrichment from a doctrinal and theoretical perspective.

Career

Call 2018 (Gray’s Inn)

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, ChBar

Publications

Chen-Wishart M. and Hughes E. (2023), ‘Monism v Pluralism in Unjust Enrichment‘, published in Swain W. and Peari S. ‘Rethinking Unjust Enrichment (OUP).

Personal

BA (University of Cambridge), BCL (University of Oxford).