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Emma Horner

4 Stone Buildings
Emma is a commercial chancery barrister and member of 4 Stone Buildings. She specialises in commercial litigation, company, insolvency and financial services.

Prior to coming to the Bar Emma read law at Trinity College Dublin, spending a year study abroad in the United States at Washington and Lee School of Law in Virginia, followed by a masters in commercial law at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
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Does section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 apply in a pre-pack scenario to a person who is a new de jure director of the Newco using the prohibited name, but who was appointed in Oldco (only for six months) prior to the administration as an employee though using the title ‘managing director’? They did not have any practical control over the business during that time.
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Is an agreement to pay x if y fails to make payment a guarantee or does the word guarantee need to be used? Does it make any practical difference?
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When a company is placed into administration, can the administrator access the job retention scheme?
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Practice areas

Membership

  • Chancery Bar Association
  • Commercial Bar Association
  • Lincolns Inn
  • London Irish Lawyers Association

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Education

  • LLM (Comm) (Cantab) (First Class Honours)
  • LLB (Dub) (First Class Honours)
  • BPTC (Outstanding)

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