Charlotte Proudman
Charlotte is an award-winning barrister with an extensive practice in complex trials and appellate cases, often encompassing ground-breaking points of law. Ranked as Legal 500’s Leading Junior, Charlotte acts in high value matrimonial finance cases, private law children, child abduction, surrogacy and serious public law children cases. She works on complex cases involving male violence against women that cut across crime, civil litigation and immigration law. She has represented and advised high-profile public and political figures. Charlotte was awarded ‘Advocate of the Year’ at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards 2023, she was named ‘Hot 100’ by the Lawyer 2021, she was highly commended for ‘Junior Family Law Barrister of the Year’ and Re H-N won ‘Case of the Year’ at the Family Law Awards 2021 and she was awarded ‘Rising Star’ at the Women in Law Awards 2020.
As a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Charlotte researches and lectures on gender inequality under the law, domestic abuse and female genital mutilation. She is also a Senior Research Associate at Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge. Oxford University Press published her book, ‘FGM: When Culture and Law Clash’. Charlotte was awarded her Doctorate in FGM law from King’s College, Cambridge and she was a Visiting Researcher, Berkeley Law School and Harvard Law School.
As an advocate for change, Charlotte was instrumental in drafting legislation that resulted in key legislative changes including raising the age of marriage from 16 to 18, criminalising child marriage, virginity testing and hymenoplasty, drafting amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill, introducing FGM Protection Orders and criminalising forced marriage. She is a legal advisor to Our Streets Now and Plan UK, a campaign to criminalise sexual harassment and Ambassador to DAME, sustainable period products.
