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Charmaine Hast

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Work Department

Family

Position

Charmaine is regarded as an expert in English Family Law and is one of the few Family Solicitor finance Arbitrators (CIArb) which means she is able to hand down binding judgments in family law money matters.

Charmaine has the benefit of BA (Psychology) and LLB degrees.

Charmaine has been named in the Spear’s 2023 Index, listed as a leading individual in Legal 500 and is individually ranked in Chambers UK.  She is the only family solicitor to ever be listed on the ePrivateClient’s 50 Most Influential Solicitors.

She has particular experience and expertise in advising on big-money and big-name divorces. She is able to advise on cross-border money matters and has a particular interest in trusts and pensions. Her practice covers divorce, separation, civil partnerships, pre and post-nuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements, children issues, abductions and international law.  She works with the leading Family Law silks.

Charmaine is always conscious of the need to combine the legal and psychological factor to facilitate advantageous results in these financially challenging times.

Career

Partner Berkowitz Kirkel Cohen Inc, South Africa, for 15 years; qualified in England 1996; head of department in South East England; head of family department Wedlake Bell 2012.

Memberships

Resolution. Charmaine was one of the first accredited specialists in high-net-worth financial matters and abductions, a past trustee of Surrey Family Mediation and a former Vice Chairman of the British South African Law Association.

Education

BA & LLB, Psychology and Law