Charmaine Hast

Practice Areas

Charmaine is a Consultant in Collyer Bristow’s Family team.

Charmaine is a well-known and highly regarded name in Family Law with particular experience and expertise in advising on complex, high-value and high-profile family matters, often with a cross-border element. She has represented a significant number of public figures including pop stars, actors and actresses, members of parliament, well known sportspeople, TV personalities, and entrepreneurs.

She has a degree in Psychology as well as Law, and is highly skilled at negotiating extremely favourable settlements and securing exceptional judgements for clients. She is also a qualified South African Attorney and has a number of reported cases, including The Supreme Court.

Career

Charmaine established the Family department at Wedlake Bell in 2011 and previously established and headed the Family team of South-East firm, TWM Solicitors.

Professional Memberships

Charmaine is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and, as one of only a small number of Family Solicitor finance Arbitrators (CIArb), is able to hand down binding judgments in family law financial matters.

She is also a member of Resolution (formerly Solicitors Family Law Association) where she was one of the first accredited specialists in high-net-worth financial matters and child abductions.

Awards