A FORMER press officer for the world famous Lowther Horse Driving Trials has joined the ranks of a leading firm of solicitors.
Qualified barrister Emma Bramley, 28, has joined Brabners Chaffe Street as an assistant solicitor in the employment team.
The field sports enthusiast, who grew up in Shap, Cumbria, previously worked as a press officer at the Earl of Lonsdale’s annual equestrian event, near Penrith.
She said: “I loved working at the Lowther event, it was hard work but fantastic fun.
“My main role was to liaise with the press and make sure they had everything they needed.
“Working in the legal profession is certainly a world away from my former life at the horse trials.”
Emma, who studied at Liverpool John Moores University, qualified as a barrister in 2001 before working in-house for legal insurers DAS, based in Cardiff.
The rugby union fanatic moved to Merseyside in 2003 where she launched an employment department at Frodshams Solicitors, dual qualifying as a solicitor in 2004 before moving to Hill Dickinson in Liverpool as a tribunal advocate.
Emma specialises in discrimination claims and conducted the first-ever sexual orientation claim in the UK in 2003.
She was also the successful advocate in the landmark case of Forshaw and others v Archcraft Limited.
Emma successfully argued this case in the Appeal Tribunal in London, establishing the principle that refusing to sign a contract containing unreasonable restrictive covenants can not be a fair reason for dismissal.