Frances Burton

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Qualified: 
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Chancery
Education
Employment and workplace
Family
Housing
International
Residential Property
Education: 
St Anne's College, Oxford; London University; Leicester University;Open University: LLB, LLM, MA, Barrister, Middle Temple (Harmsworth Major Exhibitioner) and Lincolns Inn

Judicial History: 
  • Retired Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
  • Formerly Judicial Chairman of the Transport Tribunal
  • Formerly Lawyer Chairman of the Residential Property Tribunal
General Information: 

Frances has considerable experience in a diverse range of subjects acquired during her practice as Counsel, as a leading academic, in her Judicial capacity and as Mediator - these include:

Residential property:

  • Service charge disputes between Lessor/Managing Agents and Lessees (including Housing Association and Local Authority cases as well as those involving private landlords and commercial managing agents)
  • Major works disputes
  • Appointment of Manager disputes
  • Variation of Lease disputes
  • Purchase of freeholds and Lease Extension disputes

Education:

  • Lecturers' employment disputes in higher education, in particular discrimination against women's career progression

Employment and workplace:

  • Discrimination claims, particular expertise in relation to issues affecting women, especially in the legal profession (both solicitors' firms and barristers' chambers)

Family (including Child Law):

  • Family Property and Money disputes, including those of cohabitants
  •  particular expertise in expatriate Anglo Spanish issues, including cross border abduction and relocation of children

Frances is Co-Director of the Centre for Family Law and Practice at London Metropolitan University, an expert international research centre founded in 2009 to exploit the interface between academe and practice in specialist areas of Family Law and allied subject areas

Author of several books on Family Law and Practice

Frances is a member of the European Women Lawyers Association, Vice President for International Affairs of the Association of Women Barristers of England and Wales and an active member of the Women's Interest Group and of the Judges' Forum of the International Bar Association. She speaks French and Spanish fluently and has a significant knowledge of the lifestyle and culture (both personal and commercial) of both France and Spain owing to previous practice in the Anglo Spanish expatriate community in Spain and teaching in the Socrates Erasmus staff mobility scheme in a partner university in France, and has also taught in the same scheme in Germany.

All aspects of International Family Property with an emphasis on Anglo-Spanish law.