Fiona Butler

Practice Areas

Fiona leads the in-house barrister team and with over 21 years' experience in the field, her primary practice is inquests. She is instructed on behalf of NHS organisations, private health providers, education settings, care facilities, local authorities, and security regulators to represent their interests in complex, high-profile and lengthy cases where Article 2 is engaged, often before a jury.

Adept at obtaining injunctions against media publications, Fiona’s success includes obtaining an injunction against Channel 4 'Dispatches' programme to prevent publication of information pertinent to a jury case, against ‘Take a Break’ magazine which was due to name children currently in the care of a local authority. She has further advised, for example, an NHS trust on the merits of obtaining an injunction against 'Tonight with Trevor McDonald' programme.

Called to the Bar in 1999 and following pupillage at KCH Garden Square Chambers, Fiona was Browne Jacobson’s first in-house barrister and pioneered the firm’s in-house Chambers offering. A pupil supervisor since 2010, Fiona has overall responsibility for the in-house pupillage training programme and is appointed HM Assistant Coroner in three jurisdictions. Local authorities call upon Fiona’s expertise to provide advice to them in their function as budget holders for the coronial services within their jurisdiction.