Women Barristers

Francis Burt Chambers strongly supports equality of opportunity for all its members in practice at the Bar, and is committed to eliminating practices and attitudes that discriminate against women barristers.

Barristers should be selected for their skills, competency and diligence independently of their gender. Francis Burt Chambers encourages solicitors briefing counsel to identify women barristers who accept instructions in the area in which they are briefing, to consider instructing women barristers regularly and on important cases; and to avoid stereotypical assumptions about the abilities and suitability to court work of male and female barristers.