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Charlotte Hartley

020 7936 1500 chartley@1kbw.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Family (matrimonial finance and divorce; domestic and international children law; cohabitation and TOLATA).

Position

Reported cases

• Akhmedova v Akhmedov[2020] EWHC 1526 (Fam) – enforcement proceedings in respect of the largest matrimonial award made in England and Wales, over £450 million
• Akhmedova v Akhmedov[2020] EWHC 2257 (Fam) – variation and extension of freezing orders following financial remedies order
• A v R [2020] EWFC 87 (child arrangements in non-Hague country)
• A v R [2020] EWFC 88 (costs in private law children)
• S v S(Application to Prevent Solicitor Acting) [2017] EWHC 2660 (Fam) – an application for an injunction preventing a solicitor from acting for a party in family proceedings.
• Re A (A Patient) [2016] EWCOP 38
• Re A (A Patient) (No 2) [2016] EWCOP 39
• Re S (Wardship: Summary return: non Convention country) [2015] EWHC 176 (Fam)
• Re B (Child evidence) [2014] EWCA Civ 1015 (evidence of a non-subject child)
• Barnett v Barnett[2014] EWHC 2678 (Fam) – concerning a Part III MFPA 1984 application for financial remedy after overseas divorce.
• Galloway v Goldstein[2012] EWHC 60 (Fam); [2012] (Fam). 129; [2012] 2 W.L.R. 1003; [2012] 1 F.L.R. 1254; [2012] Fam. Law 521 – concerning the validity of a foreign marriage ceremony.

Career

Qualified 2009, Gray’s Inn.

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 applications pursuant to TOLATA 1996. She has experience acting as junior counsel in cases concerning high-level assets.

Charlotte also acts and advises in matters connected to financial proceedings, including interim remedies and freezing orders, pre- and post-nuptial agreements and nuptial trusts, and issues pertaining to enforcement.

Charlotte co-authored the first edition of ‘1KBW on Trusts in Matrimonial Finance Proceedings’ (published by Bloomsbury in 2019) and contributed to the 10th edition of ‘Jackson’s Matrimonial Finance (published by Lexis Nexis in 2019). Previously she contributed to practice notes for the Practical Law Company on topics including the operation of international nuptial agreements and enforcement of foreign maintenance orders pursuant to the European Maintenance regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009). She is currently co-authoring a new text on Enforcement, to be published by Bloomsbury.

Charlotte also acts in cases involving a challenge to marital status, usually following a foreign marriage ceremony of disputed validity.

Private Law Children
Charlotte represents parents in disputes concerning all issues of parental responsibility including child arrangements, schooling, health and welfare. She has experience of 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 allegations of international child trafficking, sexual, physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence, severe neglect and the causation of non-accidental injuries to a child.

Memberships

Secretary of the Family Law Bar Association
Member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Member of the Criminal Bar Association
Member of the Child Abduction Lawyers Association

Education

Clare College, University of Cambridge: BA (Hons) Social and Political Sciences (Politics) First Class
City University: Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction)
Inns of Court School of Law: Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent).