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About
Provided by Charlotte Hartley
Practice Areas
Finance
Charlotte practises in all areas of family finance, including applications for financial remedies following the dissolution of a marriage or civil partnership, applications pursuant to Schedule One of the Children Act 1989 and TOLATA 1996. She has experience acting in cases concerning high-level assets.
Charlotte co-authored ‘1KBW on Trusts in Matrimonial Finance Proceedings’ (Bloomsbury 2019) and ‘1KBW on Enforcement in Financial Remedy Proceedings’.
Private Law Children
Charlotte represents parents in disputes concerning all issues of parental responsibility: child arrangements, schooling, health and welfare, and cases with an international element, including applications to remove children permanently from the jurisdiction.
Charlotte has experience dealing with cases with complex safeguarding issues, including international child trafficking, sexual, physical and emotional abuse, domestic abuse, severe neglect and the causation of non-accidental injuries to a child.
ADR
Charlotte acts as a mediator and offers private FDRs and ENEs, both before and during proceedings.
Career
Qualified 2009, Gray’s Inn.
Clare College, University of Cambridge: MA (Cantab) First Class; City University: Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction); Inns of Court School of Law: Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent).
Professional Memberships
Secretary of the Family Law Bar Association; Member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn; Member of the Child Abduction Lawyers Association, Member of Resolution
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Junior barrister Charlotte Hartley has a noted ability in financial remedy cases, and a practice relating to multi-jurisdictional disputes. She has further experience in contested private children proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence and abuse.
Junior barrister Charlotte Hartley has a noted ability in financial remedy cases, and a practice relating to multi-jurisdictional disputes. She has further experience in contested private children proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence and abuse.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Charlotte is a rare advocate who seamlessly handles both children and finance work at the highest level. She is incredibly bright yet down to earth, and manages any client with ease."
"Charlotte is an extraordinary advocate, who is wise beyond her years and able to take on the toughest KCs. She is also incredibly kind and empathic, as well as prodigiously clever."
"Charlotte is brilliant. Her written work is outstanding and she is a persuasive force in court. She has a very calming way with clients, and is endlessly creative in her approach."
"Charlotte is a rare advocate who seamlessly handles both children and finance work at the highest level. She is incredibly bright yet down to earth, and manages any client with ease."
"Charlotte is an extraordinary advocate, who is wise beyond her years and able to take on the toughest KCs. She is also incredibly kind and empathic, as well as prodigiously clever."
"Charlotte is brilliant. Her written work is outstanding and she is a persuasive force in court. She has a very calming way with clients, and is endlessly creative in her approach."
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