Emily Lanham

Call: 2016

“I can’t recommend Emily Lanham highly enough. She works incredibly hard, is very articulate and pays close attention to detail on every case.”

Criminal Defence Solicitor

“Thank you for making the process smooth and easy for me…your guidance in our conference and [on the day of trial] really helped me prepare”

Criminal Defence Client

“I will never forget what you have done for me”

Criminal Defence Client

Emily Lanham is an established advocate, regularly instructed to prosecute and defend a wide range of criminal cases and regulatory matters.

She has acted as led junior and junior alone in complex drug matters, serious violence, fraud, modern slavery and trafficking. Recent instructions include attempted murder, evasion of duty, fraudulent trading, HSE matters, human trafficking, and kidnapping.

Emily takes pride in working collaboratively with those instructing her, and she is praised for her sensitive approach to cases involving vulnerable witnesses and defendants.

In a previous career Emily was Director of a social-mobility charity, supported by the UK Supreme Court, which gave young people from diverse backgrounds opportunities to break down barriers to the legal profession. She also worked internationally on several projects including an EU-wide approach to the anti-radicalisation of young people; and in India, on a “legal literacy” project at the National University for Judicial Studies.

Expertise

Criminal

Operation Loch [2026] – Led Junior for the prosecution in a husband-and-wife modern slavery, money laundering and sex trafficking prosecution.
Operation Postmaster [2025] – Led Junior for the prosecution in a multi-handed sex trafficking prosecution.
R v C (On Appeal)- [2025] EWCA Crim 513 – successful appeal against sentence in the Court of Appeal.
Operation Krill [2024] – Led Junior for the prosecution in a multi-handed drugs conspiracy.
Operation Boheme [2024] – Defence counsel in multi-handed firearms & drugs conspiracy.
R v S (On Appeal) – [2020] EWCA Crim 1797 | [2020] 12 WLUK 507 – successful appeal of the activation period of a suspended sentence order after breach
R v F – Rape. The client was unanimously acquitted by the jury.
Operation Nightstand: Led junior for the prosecution in a multi-handed drugs conspiracy. All bar one of the 9 Defendants were convicted of their part in the conspiracy and sentenced to between 2 and 4 and a half years each.
Operation Hidden: Led junior for the prosecution in a multi-handed conspiracy to supply Class A drugs from prison. All defendants unanimously convicted.

Courts Martial

Emily accepts instructions in the Court Martial.

LD M – Successfully defended a Leading Diver charged with GBH against a superior officer whilst on deployment in Guam.

Regulatory & Disciplinary

Emily has experience in various elements of Local Authority and Regulatory matters having been instructed as junior and led junior in a range of Local Authority prosecutions. These include licensing (taxi licensing appeals), trading standards (“dodgy builders” and counterfeit goods), as well as animal welfare and health and safety matters.

C & M – junior counsel in a fraudulent trading prosecution in which the Defendant had scammed 22 homeowners out of over £500,000 and refused to complete the building works he had started. He received a prison sentence of 5 years and 9 months.
CS – successful prosecution of a corner shop owner who was caught selling illicit cigarettes valued at more than £125,000

Health & Safety

HSE v C: Secured a suspended sentence order for Defendant charged with a second time offence of operating without a gas safety certificate

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Additional Information

Qualifications

BPTC – BBP
LLB – University of York

Awards:

Quatercentenary Scholarship – Middle Temple
Pupillage Scholarship Award – Middle Temple
York Award – University of York

Professional Associations

Middle Temple
Western Circuit
CPS Grade 3 Panel Advocate – General Crime
CPS Grade 2 – POCA
CPS Grade 2 – Serious Crime

Outside Interests

Emily lives on the coast and enjoys sea swimming and running with her (much faster) Greyhound x Collie, Finley.
She enjoys learning new skills in her free time. She has qualifications in welding and is an occasional wakeboarder in training.

Publications

Young, Marginalised But Not Radicalised: A comparative study of positive approaches to youth radicalisation https://sculptuk.org/product/young-marginalised-but-not-radicalised-a-comparative-study-of-positive-approaches-to-youth-radicalisation/

An Objectors Guide to Fracking (Environmental Planning and Litigation Service) (chapters drafted by Andrew Parkinson, the late Sonal Barot, Andrew Byass, Matthew Dale-Harris and Emily Lanham from Landmark Chambers, along with Jennifer Jones from Matrix Chambers and Ugo Hayter (solicitor) from Leigh Day).