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About
Provided by Charlotte Haworth Hird
Practice Areas
Charlotte is a partner at Bhatt Murphy. She specialises in acting for vulnerable individuals and their families with particular expertise in representing the families of those who have died whilst in the care of the state including mental health patients, individuals with a learning disability and children in foster care.
Career
In representing bereaved families, Charlotte advises and assists in respect of all related investigations including internal NHS Trust investigations, criminal prosecutions and, investigations by the Care Quality Commission, Health and Safety Executive and regulatory bodies. She also acts for families in civil claims arising out of their loved one’s death.
Charlotte also represents individuals in claims arising out of their treatment whilst under the care of the state, including following psychological or physical abuse in care homes and in claims where individuals have been unlawfully deprived of their liberty.
Charlotte was awarded the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award in the category of inquests and actions against the state in 2014 and was joint winner of Liberty’s Close to Home Award with the #JusticeforLB campaign and INQUEST in 2016.
Charlotte is committed to improving the way in which families are treated following a contentious death. In this regard, she has been a member of various working groups including the JUSTICE Working Party for their report ‘When Things Go Wrong: the response of the justice system’ and the advisory group to the Care Quality Commission in respect of its report ‘Learning, candour and accountability; A review of the way NHS trusts review and investigate the deaths of patients in England’. She regularly advises and trains stakeholders, NGOs and campaigning organisations on issues arising out of deaths of psychiatric patients and linked specialist points of inquest and human rights law.
Charlotte has experience of acting in public inquiries and was recently instructed as Solicitor to the Independent QC Investigation, which was established by the Welsh Government to investigate the decision to sack a member of the Welsh Assembly who took his own life shortly after being removed from post.
Professional Memberships
Inquest Lawyers Group; INQUEST Lawyers Steering Group; Human Rights Lawyers Association; Police Action Lawyers Group; Liberty.
Chambers Review
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Charlotte Haworth Hird advises vulnerable individuals and their families at inquests. Her practice focuses on representing bereaved families of those who have died while in state care, including mental health patients and other vulnerable adults.
Charlotte Haworth Hird of Bhatt Murphy is noted for the valuable support she provides to vulnerable individuals and their families, particularly in inquests into patient deaths. She also advises on matters involving detentions under the Mental Health Act.
Charlotte Haworth Hird maintains a respected practice which includes bringing claims alleging various ECHR violations. She also regularly represents bereaved families who have suffered as a result of Article 2 breaches at inquests.
Charlotte Haworth Hird acts for families of individuals who have died at the hands of the state. She is frequently involved in criminal prosecutions and civil claims on behalf of vulnerable clients.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Charlotte has huge expertise in how mental health trusts and providers look after mental health patients and how things can go wrong. She is a real force in the field."
"She is a real leader and expert in the field of inquest practitioners."
"She is a brilliant technical lawyer and incredibly careful about how she frames her claims. She is a very intelligent practitioner."
"Charlotte is a very experienced and excellent practitioner."
"Charlotte is incredibly effective both in strategy and finding an effective way to make change. She is very calm too."
"Charlotte is a brilliant technical lawyer."
"Charlotte is someone who fights the fight for her clients; with dogged determination, she will find an angle. Incredible tenacity."
"Charlotte has huge expertise in how mental health trusts and providers look after mental health patients and how things can go wrong. She is a real force in the field."
"She is a real leader and expert in the field of inquest practitioners."
"She is a brilliant technical lawyer and incredibly careful about how she frames her claims. She is a very intelligent practitioner."
"Charlotte is a very experienced and excellent practitioner."
"Charlotte is incredibly effective both in strategy and finding an effective way to make change. She is very calm too."
"Charlotte is a brilliant technical lawyer."
"Charlotte is someone who fights the fight for her clients; with dogged determination, she will find an angle. Incredible tenacity."
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