Chris Barton is Emeritus Professor (Staffordshire University) of Family Law, an emeritus member of the Society of Legal Scholars and an Academic Door Tenant at Regent Chambers (Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent). He is a Vice-President of the Family Mediators Association and assists with the provision of continuing professional development for family lawyers and family mediators.

I am a Director of Family and Childcare at Duncan Lewis and I supervise a large team comprising of child panel members, solicitors, trainees and caseworkers at our Dalston branch in East London.

I qualified as a Solicitor in 2003 and became a Law Society accredited children law panel member in 2011. I am recommended as a specialist for my London Family work by the independent legal directory, The Legal 500 UK. My case load comprises of a broad range of privately and publicly funded (legal aid) family and childcare matters.