Experience

Before commencing pupillage, Emma was a legal assistant for a top ranked immigration barrister. In this role, she assisted with direct access immigration and asylum cases on matters concerning refugee, ECHR and public law.

 

Alongside this Emma worked as caseworker for Advocate, the Bar Pro Bono Unit, supporting individuals to find pro bono assistance from barristers. She worked in all areas of law as the General Caseworker for a year before becoming the Public Law Caseworker. She also co-led the Court of Protection and Court of Appeal Schemes and was responsible for cases referred through these pathways.

Emma has undertaken various volunteering roles including, most recently, for Lawyers Against Poverty and as a legal observer for Green and Black Cross. She has also volunteered for the Free Representation Unit in the Social Security Tribunal, as a Welfare Rights Advisor for BPP’s Legal Advice Clinic and as a Migrant Support Volunteer at St Vincent’s Support Centre in Leeds.

Emma is supervised in pupillage by Charlie Peat and Keelin McCarthy.

News & Cases
news
Pupils start their second six
Congratulations to Beatrice Yahia, Emma Talbot and Joseph Maggs
Joseph Maggs, Emma Talbot, Beatrice Yahia
cases
R (HI) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
One Pump Court’s David Chirico KC and Daniel Grütters acted for HI in both the UT and the Court of Appeal, instructed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
David Chirico KC, Daniel Grütters, Joseph Maggs, Emma Talbot

Professional Memberships

YLAL

Haldane Society of Lawyers

ALBA

ILPA

Awards

Leonard Woodley Prize, Inner Temple (2025)

Yarborough-Anderson Scholarship, Inner Temple (2021)

Exhibition Scholarship (2021)

Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award, Inner Temple (2021)

Academic Excellence Scholarship, BPP University (2021)

Ambassador Scholarship, BPP University (2020)

Education

Barrister Training Course, BPP University, Distinction (2022)

LLM, BPP University, Distinction (2022)

LLB, University of Leeds, First Class (2020)

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