"Charlotte is technical and has a very good way with the parties. I strongly recommend her”

Chambers High Net Worth 2024

“Charlotte is technical and has a very good way with the parties.  I strongly recommend her”.  “Charlotte’s a really fantastic mediator and is good at unpicking complex disputes”.  “She has a very sensible and pragmatic approach”.

Chambers High Net Worth 2022

“Charlotte is really making a name for herself quickly”

Chambers UK Bar 2018

“She is a phenomenally tough negotiator”.  “Great with clients and assertive in the courtroom”.

Chambers High Net Worth 2017

“She is an absolute star; she is very good on the law and people think very highly of her”.   “I use her a lot for what I would call delicate cases; matters that have got a sensitive family aspect, because she is very good at sitting down with clients and going through difficult personal issues”.

Chambers UK 2017

“She’s very confident, she’s very well prepared, she knows the law, and from the point of view of opposing barristers she’s very reasonable”. “I was very reassured by her judgment and she was reassuring, calm and got the job done”.

Chambers UK 2017

“She is a junior but she has a fire in her belly.  She is very good at taking in a lot of info and providing robust advice. She’ll take an approach that might not be the easiest, and give an opinion even if it isn’t what you want to hear. Clients feel they can have confidence in her. I think the clients love working with her and are happy to take her advice”.

Chambers High Net Worth 2017

“She is clever but also very easy to talk to about quite complex issues. She presents her ideas in a very clear way and clients really like that.”

Chambers High Net Worth 2016

“Able to think strategically and forge a path through competing issues.   She is helpful and responsive, and an excellent advocate”.   “She is clever but also very easy to talk to about quite complex issues.  She presents her ideas in a very clear way and clients really like that”.

Chambers UK 2016

“She’s responsive, she’s clear, and her advocacy is way beyond what one would expect of someone of her call. She’s good with clients, she’s extremely hard-working and her drafting is good. She really is the rising star of the junior end.”

Chambers UK 2016

“A steel fist in a velvet glove. She’s very good on strategy, extremely personable and a real fighter for her client.” “She reads the dynamics of a tricky situation very well, and is very good at communicating her client’s point of view to the court.”

The core of Charlotte’s practice is contentious probate litigation. She has considerable experience in issues of testamentary capacity, undue influence and want of knowledge and approval, along with claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and construction and rectification claims.

Charlotte has advised on Court of Protection matters for many years and appeared in Re M [2011] 1 WLR 344, one of the earliest cases on statutory wills under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (instructed by Withers LLP).   In the context of lifetime gifting applications she appeared for the successful applicant in Re A [2015] COPLR 297, a successful and highly contested application for the payment out of A’s funds of her younger brother’s school fees.

Charlotte is ranked as a Band 1 Trust Mediator by Chambers & Partners HNW 2024.  She qualified as a mediator in 2013 and has a busy mediation practice.   She is regularly instructed to mediate a wide range of claims, in particular disputed wills and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

Brasenose College, Oxford (BA, 2004); City University London (GDL, 2005)

Chancery Bar Association

ACTAPS

Charlotte regularly speaks and writes on all areas of her practice.

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