Fiona Butler > Browne Jacobson LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Browne Jacobson LLP Offices
MOWBRAY HOUSE
CASTLE MEADOW ROAD
NOTTINGHAM
NG2 1BJ
England
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Fiona Butler
Work Department
Government, Regulatory and Advocacy
Position
Fiona has developed a broad professional disciplinary practice in education and healthcare over the last 21 years. Praised for ‘stellar advice which takes pitfalls into account’, she is now a trusted legal advisor to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) and sits as Legal Advisor to the Professional Conduct Committee of the Chartered Institute of Building.
Fiona is a key name in a highly responsive team has strategically advised both the Teaching Regulation Agency and Department of Education in relation to the first ever case in which a teacher was prosecuted for failing to comply with the Prevent Duty as defined by s.26(1) of the Counter-terrorism and Security Act 2015.
Fiona’s health practice sees her instructed in a wide range of cases from simple ‘documentary’ inquests to complex Article 2 cases, often with a high media profile. She has acted on behalf of NHS Trusts (acute, mental health, community and ambulance), local authorities, education settings, security regulators and insurers both locally and nationally.
Fiona is a registered pupil supervisor with the Bar Standards Board and having pioneered the way for Browne Jacobson to become an approved Pupillage Training Organisation in 2010 and has successfully trained four barristers and assisted with the training of four others.
Career
- KCH Barristers
Memberships
- Lincoln’s Inn – member
- General Council for the Bar of England & Wales
- Employed Barristers Committee for the General Council of the Bar
Education
- called to the Bar – July 1999
- Bar Vocational Diploma
- LLB (Hons)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Private finance initiative (PFI)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport