Emma Hayward

Direct Tel: 01733 302419
Mobile: 07515 063082
Email: emma.hayward@spw-law.co.uk

Emma is a solicitor who has specialised in Intellectual Property and Commercial Dispute Resolution since her qualification in 2003. Emma joined Sloan Plumb Wood LLP in July 2008 from another local firm, Greenwoods Solicitors LLP, where she was a trainee solicitor and where she qualified into the Intellectual Property Department.

Emma has broad experience, in contentious Intellectual Property, including trade mark disputes, with particular expertise in internet and domain name-based infringements, copyright, design rights and passing off issues for a number of clients in differing fields such as medical devices, printed media and food packaging manufacturers. Emma manages her own case load and assists Philip Sloan in his intellectual property practice.

In her general Commercial Dispute Resolution experience, Emma has experience of gaining injunctions to prevent the presentation of a winding-up petition and in the preparation of statutory demands and winding-up petitions.

Emma has gained experience of Press Complaints Commission cases, successfully obtaining apologies for an individual client from two broadsheet newspapers and successfully defending a company client from an Advertising Standards Authority complaint.

She was also a member of the team behind the successful appeal to the Court of Appeal in the reported Speymill Contracts Limited v Eric Baskind case in 2010.

In addition to her active case load, Emma has assisted with the preparation and delivery of training to clients in the areas of copyright, patents and trademark law.

In 2005, Emma obtained the renowned Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Bristol.  She also holds a Diplome d’Etudes Juridqiues Francaises, which she obtained whilst studying for a year at the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg as part of her degree in Law and French Law and Language.