Called 1999; Gray’s Inn.

FLBA – Membership Secretary; Child Concern; Northern Circuit.

Beth Morton started her career in London, having undertaken a general common law pupillage and early years of tenancy at 4, King’s Bench Walk Chambers in the Temple. She specialised in crime and family initially and often defended and prosecuted cases at Crown Court level. However, by 2004, she had also established a thriving family law practice and a keen interest in the subject. She decided to concentrate solely on family law. She relocated with her family to Manchester, where she was born and brought up. She joined 18, St John Street Chambers and practised there successfully for five years before being invited to join Deans Court Chambers in 2010. Beth Morton has developed a busy and thriving specialist family law practice. She regularly acts for Local Authorities, Guardians and parents in all aspects of public child law and private child law, adoption, special guardianship, Rule 16.4 cases and relocation cases. She has experience of complex and unusual cases, findings of fact hearings, and cases involving serious non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, domestic violence and drug and alcohol misuse. Beth Morton has undertaken linked directions hearings where there are concurrent criminal and family proceedings and was involved in two directions hearings relating to murder cases, acting for the Local Authority in each case. She was led in a serious sexual abuse case acting for the alleged perpetrator where the criminal proceedings were concurrent. Beth Morton has experience acting at the County Court and High Court level and in the Court of Appeal.

Withington Girls’ School; The University of Manchester (LLB Hons); The Inns of Court School of Law (BVC).