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, Schedule One of the Children Act 1989 or TOLATA 1996. She has experience acting in cases concerning high-level assets, including the Akhmedova litigation (enforcement of a financial remedies award for £450 million).

Charlotte co-authored ‘1KBW on Trusts in Matrimonial Finance Proceedings’ (Bloomsbury 2019), ‘1KBW on Enforcement in Financial Remedy Proceedings’ (2023) and '1KBW on Financial Provision for Children’ (Bloomsbury 2025).

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 is a dual-qualified arbitrator (finance and children), and also provides mediation and private FDRs/ ENEs. Her experience of both financial and welfare proceedings mean she is often instructed to provide all-issues NCDR to support families to a resolution following relationship breakdown.

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