Chambers of Hedley Marten
11 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QB, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7831 0081
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7405 2560
- DX:
- 319 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
- Web:
- www.radcliffechambers.com
- Email:
Francesca Quint
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7831 0081
- Email:
Position
Barrister specialising in charities, Chancery, property, wills and trusts; qualified mediator; reported cases include: Gunning v Buckfast Abbey Trustees Registered [1994]; Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute v Henrietta Barnett School Governors [1996]; Gray v Taylor [1998] CA; Brewers’ Company v Attorney-General and Another [1999]; Fuller v Evans [2000]; RSPCA v Attorney General and Others [2001]; McDonnell v Christian Brothers Trustees and Another [2001]; Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem v Sonsino and Others [2002]; Fraser v Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance and Another [2007]; R (Parent Governors of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School) v Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and Another [2010]; promotes plain drafting.
Career
Called 1970; Charity Commission 1972-89 (deputy commissioner 1984-89); private practice since 1990 (chambers in Exeter as well as London until 1996). Publications: ‘Charities and Charitable Giving’ in Butterworth’s Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents; ‘Charities: the Law & Practice’ (Sweet & Maxwell looseleaf); various articles in ‘Solicitors’ Journal’, ‘Education Law Journal’, ‘Charities Law & Practice Review’, etc; drafted the Charity Law Association’s model governing documents for charities. Trustee of Elizabeth Finn Care, chairman of Elizabeth Finn Homes Ltd; ?former governor of Dulwich College and board member of COIF Charity Funds.
Member
Executive committee of the Charity Law Association (until June 2009); Council of the Statute Law Society (until June 2009); Chancery Bar Association and Clarity; Almshouse Association ?Advisory Panel.
Education
King’s College, University of London (LLB; AKC); Francis Bacon Scholar of Gray’s Inn.
Practice Areas
Charities; Education; Private client - probate, wills and family provision
