Emily Formby KC

Professional Memberships

Chair – Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA)

PNBA

Middle Temple

South East Circuit

Publications

Kemp & Kemp: Quantum of Damages

Career

Chair – Personal Injury Bar Association (from 2024)

Silk 2021

Recorder (Criminal and Civil Courts) 2010

CEDR Qualified Mediator

BA (Oxon), Modern History

GDL, City University

BVC Inns of Court School of Law

Called to the Bar (Middle Temple) 1993

Practice Areas

Emily, ranked for over 20 years in the Directories as a stand out practitioner and nominated for Legal 500 Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year in 2023, is renowned for her extensive personal injury and clinical negligence practice and is involved with the most complex cases of the highest value. She has wide experience acting for both claimant and defendant in all types of claims, both public and private, with clients appreciating her ability to think cases through in the round.

She is adept at absorbing and understanding complicated clinical and factual issues which she subjects to an incisive forensic legal analysis. Praised for her keen intellect and ability to work with experts, she is also well known for her warm manner and ability to involve and engage her clients in the litigation process. She has particular expertise in fatal accident claims and complicated medical issues where her broad medical knowledge is particularly useful. Emily is known for her ability to incisively comprehend the most complicated situations and produce a clear analysis of the key issues. Her expertise in clinical matters leads to particular expertise in managing expert witnesses and means she is often sought out for complex inquests and difficult causation claims.

She is a CEDR qualified Mediator and a Recorder sitting in the Crown and County Court for more than 10 years. She is Chair of the Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA) and sits on the Bar Council’s General Management Committee as PIBA representative.