Frances Rattray
Email: frances.rattray@steelandshamash.co.uk
Frances is a Solicitor in the Mental Health department.
Frances trained and qualified as a barrister, and was called to the Bar in 1998. She joined Steel & Shamash in 2004, and was admitted as a solicitor in 2007. She has Higher Rights of Audience in all courts in all proceedings. She is on the Law Society Mental Health Review Tribunal Panel.
Concerned to represent those confined within the mental health system and disadvantaged by mental illness, she works full time in the mental health field and has particular interest in Human Rights issues, and Nearest Relative concerns. She has successfully issued habeas corpus claims and represented a number of Nearest Relatives and patients in nearest relative displacement proceedings in the County Court.
Frances also has expertise in mental capacity and Court of Protection work, including Lasting Power of Attorney.
Membership:
- Inner Temple
- Law Society
- Mental Health Lawyers Association
- Mental Health Review Tribunal
- Legal Action Group
- Bar of England and Wales