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Francesca Quint

Francesca Quint

Position

Chancery, with an emphasis on charities: also education. Recent cases include Sparrow, Came & Websper v Charity Commission and Others (First-tier Tribunal (Charity) (2014); Bangor Provident Trust Limited and Victoria Housing Estates Limited v Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland) and (on appeal) High Court in Northern Ireland and (Victoria only) Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland) (2013, 2014, 2015); Cifci v Erbil (Chancery Division) (2012); Attorney General v Charity Commission & Others (Upper Tribunal) (2012); R (Independent Schools Council) v Charity Commission & Others (Upper Tribunal) (2011). Numerous non litigation cases involving sensitive matters and high profile organisations.

Career

Called 1970, Gray’s Inn; Lincoln’s Inn ad eundem 1980; member of the Northern Ireland Bar 2013 to date; Government Legal Service (Charity Commission) 1972-89; Assistant Charity Commissioner 1974; Deputy Charity Commissioner (Grade 5) 1984; independent practice at the Chancery Bar practising from chambers in Lincoln’s Inn 1990 and also Exeter 1990-96; bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 2008 to date. Publications: ‘Charities and Charitable Giving��� in Butterworth’s Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents; ‘Charities: the Law & Practice’ (Sweet & Maxwell looseleaf). Board member ASPIRE Law LLP; member advisory body, the Almshouse Association.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Charity Law Association; Clarity; Statute Law Society.

Education

St Paul’s Girls’ School; University of London King’s College (LLB upper second class honours 1969); AKC (credit); Francis Bacon Scholar of Gray’s Inn 1969.

Leisure

Mensa, the Haslemere Society, Friends of the Royal Academy, Tilford Bach Society.

Mentions

London Bar

Charities

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Francesca Quint –Radcliffe Chambers 'A top class brain.'