Francesca is highly ranked by both major legal directories across her practice areas. They say she “is an absolute pleasure to work with”… “a fierce and meticulous advocate with technical and procedural expertise at her fingertips” known for ”powerful and clever advocacy, capable of blowing other advocates out of the water”.

She has particular expertise at trial and contested hearings and her practice is chiefly focussed on the negligence liability of professionals and public authorities. These include the most complex clinical negligence cases, multi-million pound claims in respect of lawyers, architects and surveyors, social services claims and high profile cases examining the extent of public authorities’ duties, see eg. Osborne & Anor v Cambridgeshire County Council [2022] EWHC 1982), and linked injury-related claims (particularly Inquests, EL/PL and difficult cases at the juncture of private and public law).

Francesca is the author of Thomson Reuter’s Practice Note on lawyer’s scope of duty and has a particular interest in the nature and extent of the duty of care.

In 2020, Francesca was appointed to the Attorney-General’s Panel of Counsel and is instructed by the Government in a range of cases – particularly those that involve vexatious litigants and that require civil restraint orders (see eg. Soeb v Secretary of State for the Home Office [2021] EWHC 3403 (QB), Morrell v Health & Safety Executive [2022] 6 WLUK 142).

In 2023, she was appointed a part-time Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, sitting in the Health and Social Care Chamber.