Frances Ridout is Co-I for the CMA 1990 project and specialises in the legal dimensions of image-based sexual abuse cases and upskirting.

She is the Director of the Legal Advice Centre and a practising barrister and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at the Queen Mary University of London (she is an associate tenant at 15 New Bridge Street Chambers). She further leads the SPITE project at the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre which offers free legal advice for revenge porn victims.