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Frances Hughes
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Work Department
Matrimonial and family.
Position
Chair of board of family law niche practice and leading figure in family law for many years specialising in complex financial cases, including those with substantial business assets and partnerships; trusts and tax problem cases involving foreign jurisdictions; cohabitation cases; prenuptial agreements and also private children’s residence and other children’s matters including child abduction.
Career
Trained Theodore Goddard 1979-81; qualified 1981; assistant in matrimonial department 1981-83; set up matrimonial department Bates, Wells & Braithwaite 1983; founded Hughes Fowler Carruthers 2001; fellow and governor at large of International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, vice-president of the European chapter 2000-04 and 2006 to date; accredited FMA and Resolution (formerly SFLA) mediator 2006; regularly speaks at conferences and broadcasts on television and radio and lectures on family law matters nationally and internationally; member of the ‘Times’ Law Panel.
Member
Law Society; Resolution (formerly SFLA); FMA; IAML; FRSA; ‘Times’ Law Panel.
Education
Ursuline School, Wimbledon; St Anne’s College, Oxford (MA).
Leisure
Opera; sits on the board of the Poetry Society.
Practice Areas
Arbitration, ADR, mediation; Family - children; Family - matrimonial
