Adjudication Case Law Update No.18

Speakers (all of Keating Chambers): 

• Jennie Wild
• Emma Healiss 

Introduction by Carly Thorpe of Walker Morris LLP. 

Jennie Wild is a well-regarded and experienced specialist in oral and written advocacy in high-value, and complex, construction and energy disputes, resolved by way of arbitration or litigation. Jennie was awarded “Construction Junior of the Year” for 2024 at the Legal 500 MENA Awards.

She is ranked as a leading junior by Chambers & Partners, the Legal 500 and Doyles Guide in Construction, Energy, International Arbitration and the Middle East. She has been described as “a legal wizard”, “a master tactician”,  “an energetic advocate”, “meticulous and thorough”, “user-friendly and down-to-earth”, being “strategic and thoughtful”, having “an elegant drafting style”, “undaunted by large and complex cases”, “someone you want on your team” and “in reality, already a star”. She is also featured in a text of “40 under 40” rising arbitral practitioners from around the world.

Emma Healiss specialises in domestic and international construction, energy and professional negligence disputes. She is described as an “exceptional” and “first-class” barrister and has recently been recognised as Construction and Energy Junior of the Year by Legal 500. 

Emma is ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners in construction, energy and professional negligence. She is recommended as an “extremely proactive” barrister with an “easy personable style” who “has an exceptional commercial stance and provides commercial focused and innovative advice to clients”. Emma is also commended for her advocacy skills and is praised for cross examining “to the level of a barrister far more senior than her”.  Emma’s excellence in advocacy was recognised by her appointment to the Attorney General’s C Panel in 2021.