Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Call: 2005
'Highly motivated and easy to work with on a particularly difficult NAI case.'
Legal 500 UK Bar 2027
Frances Harris has a mixed family law practice, and is well liked by her clients for her reassuring and empathetic manner.
Frances delivers focused advice: with a keen eye for the practical in addition to the legal. She will adeptly negotiate a settlement out of court or fight her client’s corner with tenacity in court, as required. She enjoys, and is appreciated for, a collaborative and tactical approach to the shaping of cases.
Her cross examination is impressively effective: meticulously prepared with a keen eye for detail and delivered in a gently persistent and persuasive style that finds favour with Judges and gets results.
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Frances undertakes a full range of private law children proceedings for parents and rule 16.4 Guardians. She is pragmatic and sensitive in her approach yet able to deliver robust advice when required, and always has the needs of the child uppermost in her mind. Where possible she seeks to avoid protracted litigation for her clients but has a wealth of experience in long running and entrenched contact and residence disputes. Frances’ tenacity and ongoing encouragement has secured many of her clients orders allowing them to spend time with their children where this did not at first appear a likely outcome. Frances is recognised for her deft cross examination skills repeatedly challenging the opposing parent and Cafcass reports with success.
Frances’ practice often involves cases which feature domestic abuse, sexual abuse and intractable contact disputes.
Family Finance & Financial Remedy
In financial remedy work Frances has wide ranging experience from those where the assets are modest and the challenge is to re-house both parties to those involving considerable assets. She is often instructed where there are children and financial proceedings in parallel and so is able to offer welcomed continuity to the client and reassurance that she has oversight of the case as a whole.
Frances is qualified to accept instructions directly from members of the public under the Direct Access Scheme in appropriate circumstances.
"Frances is an excellent barrister, who takes a forward, pragmatic approach with clients whilst also having an eye for detail."
Solicitor
Frances Harris appeared on behalf of the successful Appellant Mother in this appeal concerning the decision of a Recorder at a DRA at which he summarily determined two of the…
Harcourt Chambers is delighted to announce its impressive achievements in the latest edition of the Legal 500. The 2027 rankings highlight Harcourt’s reputation as one of the leading family law…
Frances Harris and Sian Cox’s article ‘Child focused courts and the neurodivergent family’ published in the August issue of the Family Law Journal, considers the anticipated roll out of the…