Frances Irving > Des Voeux Chambers > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile
Des Voeux Chambers Offices
38/F Gloucester Tower
The Landmark
Central, Hong Kong
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Frances Irving
Career
Frances was brought up and educated in Scotland, and trained as a social worker at Edinburgh University. She worked in this field for many years, in matters relating to children’s welfare, both in Scotland and then Hong Kong, before taking up practice at the Bar. She was called to the Bar in 1996 in London and 1997 in Hong Kong.
She joined Des Voeux Chambers in 1999 having served part of her pupillage there.
Frances has developed a busy practice exclusively in the family jurisdiction and with all aspects of matrimonial law.
She has experience in many ancillary relief cases involving;
Nuptial settlements
Trust and companies
Third party interests
Jurisdiction and forum disputes
She was one of the team of counsel who acted in the Court of Final Appeal case of LKW v. DD.
A great deal of Frances’ work concerns children’s issues, being:
Custody, Care and Control
Relocation applications
Applications under the Guardianship of Minors Ordinance
Wardship
Hague Convention cases
Year of call
- 1996 (England and Wales)
- 1997 (Hong Kong)
Education
- M. A. (The University of Edinburgh)