Emma McIlveen

Door Tenant - Call: 2016


Emma McIlveen (Door Tenant)

Republic of Ireland Year of Call: 2020

England and Wales Year of Call: 2021

Committee member of the NI Medico-Legal society.

Committee member of the Employment Lawyers Group NI

Co-Founder of the Advanced Employment Course at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queens University

Independent Assessor for the Commissioner for Public Appointments (CPANI)

Non-Executive Lay Member of the Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC)

 

Emma McIlveen is a specialist employment disputes barrister, providing strategic advisory and advocacy services to respondents and claimants. She has represented clients in all types of employment disputes and has a particular interest and experience in:

  1. Pregnancy discrimination

  2. Vulnerable claimants & reasonable adjustments

  3. Serious sexual harassment

In recent months, she has developed a specialty in advising both employers and employees on the enforceability of and/or breaches of post-employment restrictive covenants, applying for and defending applications for injunctive relief. She has experience of bringing High Court personal injury claims for assaults at work and claims involving psychological injury through harassment, bullying and stress at work. Emma has also represented clients charged with disciplinary offences before professional regulators. This area of her practice is informed by her time spent as junior counsel to the Independent Neurology Inquiry.

In addition to the above, Emma has:

  • Represented registrants before the Nursing and Midwifery Council Panel;

  • Prosecuted on behalf of Local Government Authorities;

  • Represented criminal defendants in the Crown Court;

  • Made representations regarding the unlawfulness of the continued detention under the Terrorism Act;

  • Secured Orders for Possession for Northern Ireland Housing Executive;

  • Secured a number of Protection orders;

  • Handled a number of small claims;

  • Ran assessment of damages hearings in the County Court;

  • Represented parents before School Admissions Appeal Panels;

  • Appeared before the Coroner in relation to a Death in Custody Inquest;

  • Represented Life Prisoners before the Parole Commissioners.


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