Emily Clift
Emily.Clift@kennedyslaw.com
+44 1212 148 001
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Profile
Emily is an innovative lawyer coming from a science background who specialises in disputes of a technical nature and emerging technologies. She acts for a variety of clients in the UK ranging from financial, legal and technical professionals through to company directors, mainly on instructions from global and national insurers. Her expertise spans defence, insurance, drafting and commercial legal advice.
Emily is a member of Kennedys’ Accountants and Financial Professionals Steering Group, and acts as non-executive director for edtech startups. She is a Trustee of the Bradley Canal Restoration Society, a charity which aims to restore a waterway forming part of engineer James Brindley’s canal system during the industrial revolution.
Qualifications:
- Qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2013
- LLB (2010), Queen Mary University of London
- BSc Physics (2005), BSc Biology (2006), MSc Biology (2008), Queen’s University, Canada
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Market recognition
- Key lawyer for ‘Professional Negligence: West Midlands’
The Legal 500 UK 2024
Work highlights
- Resolving data-heavy cases concerning audits, client accounts and investments with £10m+ values
- Successfully defending solicitors in Trainer v Cramer Pelmont [2019] QBD, establishing that “knowledge” in s14A Limitation Act 1980 can be obtained pre-breach
- Acted in a surveyor case which was also successfully defended on the basis of s14A knowledge, UK Insurance Ltd v Carillion Specialist Services Ltd and Anr [2019] EWHC 1588 (TCC)
- Dealing with large actions involving dozens of cases of defective tower blocks, property/investment fraud, client account fraud and defunct tax avoidance schemes, often stemming from high-profile cases
- Defending multi-jurisdiction product liability cases concerning agriculture and bacterial contamination
- Preparing a case culminating in a Court of Appeal decision concerning reinstatement in property insurance: Western Trading Ltd v Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) Plc [2016] EWCA
Presentations and publications
- Insurance Day (2024), “Data on the offensive”
- Howden “Fortune Favours The Brave” podcast (2024), Navigating the Building Safety Act for construction and insolvency professionals
- Kennedys speaker during Bright Tide’s Regenerative Agriculture Accelerator Programme 2024
- Insurance Day (2019) “The insurance risks of lab-grown meat”
- Cited in Lloyd's Emerging Risk Report (2018) “A new lease of life: Understanding the risks of synthetic biology”
- Co-author in the journal Chemical Engineering Science (2008) "Differences in nucleator adsorption may explain distinct inhibition activities of two gas hydrate kinetic inhibitors”
- Lead author in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (2008) “The search for ‘green inhibitors’: perturbing hydrate growth with bugs”.
Insurance and reinsurance