Thursday 30 March 2017

Human Rights in Everyday Life - Emma Jones



Emma Jones - Emma Jones is a partner in the Human Rights team at law firm Leigh Day. She specialises in human rights and negligence claims including human rights claims arising out of treatment and care that individuals received in hospitals, care homes, detention centres or education settings and the abuse of elderly individuals, false imprisonment and assault claims and public law challenges. 

In 2009 to 2012 she worked on human rights claims arising from the Stafford Hospital scandal representing over 200 alleged victims at Stafford hospital. Emma joined Leigh Day in 2000 and qualified as a solicitor in 2002. She joined the mental health charity Mind in 2007 as their head of legal before returning to Leigh day in 2009. 

Emma is an accredited APIL litigator, a member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, a member of the Child Abuse Special Interest Group (SIG) and the NAS legal network group.


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