Charlotte Bradley

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Charlotte is a senior consultant and former head of the Family team at Kingsley Napley from 2013 - 2024. She specialises in all aspects of family law, particularly international issues, both in relation to finance and children. Charlotte has a reputation for cross border jurisdiction issues, particularly European and Relocation cases, and for acting for unmarried parents in Schedule 1 (financial provision) cases.  She is also an accredited mediator and collaborative lawyer, working with high profile and high net worth couples keen to resolve their separation in private.

Charlotte is listed in the top ranks of the legal directories; Chambers UK, Chambers High Net Worth & Ultra High Net Worth, and Legal 500 UK. She is also Top Recommended in Spear's Family Law Index 2022. Charlotte was shortlisted as Family Law Partner of the year in 2019 in both the Family Law Awards and Chambers High Net Worth Awards.

Charlotte was the contributing editor of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Family Law 2017 to 2021, is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and is a member and former chair of Resolution’s International Committee.

Charlotte is a founding member of the multi-disciplinary Family Solutions Group set up in 2020, using her considerable experience in high conflict children cases to focus on improvements to society’s approach to private children law for the benefit of separating couples and their children.  

Charlotte is listed in the recommended category in Spears Family Law 2025. 

What clients and directories say

Charlotte Bradley is great in terms of handling her clients: she's a really shrewd litigator and you can tell she always has one eye on the whole picture."

Chambers HNW 2025

Charlotte Bradley is an experienced lawyer and mediator who is second to none in her field."

Chambers HNW 2025

Charlotte has the panache and ability to bring difficult clients on board and a degree of calm, which makes the case easier to work."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Charlotte Bradley is second-to-none, hugely technical, has great strategic sense and always takes a pragmatic, holistic approach to mediations. She can take on the most unlikely cases and find a way to come out the other end with proposals that work for the family. Clients love her."

Legal 500, 2025

Charlotte is an incredibly impressive individual. She is an exceptional client manager and makes the client feel that they've been heard. She is one of the best."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Charlotte is a fantastic lawyer who has great technical skills and does not forget the human component. She is a delight to work with."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Charlotte has great experience as a mediator and has an excellent reputation. She deals with complex cases and has the skills to navigate difficult issues to achieve solutions for her clients."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Charlotte is emotionally very intelligent and psychologically astute. She is very good at finding a path for settlement as she often understands the problems, and gives that guidance to her cases."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2023

She is a real leader in the field of mediation and a great litigator too. Clients love her and lawyers love working with her on the other side. She is always calm, polite and professional whilst getting the best deal possible for her clients."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2023

Charlotte is all things great in a solicitor - collaborative, bright and client-friendly. She is very impressive."

Chambers UK, 2023

Charlotte is excellent. She is very experienced, really good with clients and knowledgeable. She is very empathetic and is happy to hand hold a client through a tricky case. She has good instincts and is very thorough."
Chambers UK, 2023

Her experience oozes out of her pores and she makes the job look easy. Charlotte's judgement is absolutely impeccable, she is calm in her approach and clients find her a very reassuring presence."
Chambers UK, 2023

She can understand an entire case in a heartbeat and she always spots something that everybody misses. She is really great."
Chambers UK, 2023

Brings warmth and support."

Legal 500 UK 2023

Excellent with clients and has great empathy."

Legal 500 UK 2023

She’s the most widely respected family lawyer in London"
Chambers UK, 2022

She is absolutely top of the tree"
Legal 500, 2022

She is fantastic - she has all the attributes you want from an international family lawyer, and has warmth in abundance"
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession

She is very emotionally intelligent, she works out what clients aren't saying as well as what they are."

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2021

She has got a real attention to detail. She understands her clients in a way that means she can achieve what they want to achieve but in a way that is consistent with their strengths and their weaknesses. She goes the extra mile for clients."

Chambers UK 2021

 

Publications & press

• Navigating Divorce with Grace: Insights into Collaborative Law - The Divorce Magazine, May 2024
• Time for collaborative law to come of age - Law Society Gazette, May 2024 
• What are the benefits of family mediation in divorce? - FT Adviser, January 2023
• 60 seconds with Charlotte Bradley - ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce Magazine, Issue 13, June 2023 (registration required)
• Children Act: Growth in Schedule 1 claims is inevitable but regime remains unpredictable - Law Gazette, June 2023
• Unmarried parents are the norm — financial rights are overdue - The Times, April 2023
• Uncapping Bankers' Bonuses: Implications For Divorce Settlements, Wealth Briefing, November 2022
• How to protect children in divorce  - The Times, March 2022
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2022 - Co -author of chapter on England and Wales,  and editor.
• Tatler Experts' Corner - Tatler, March 2021
• Kids Law podcast: What happens to children when parents split up? March 2021
• Women in Family Law podcast: In Conversation with Charlotte Bradle‪y‬,  March 2021
• My legal life: Charlotte Bradley Kingsley Napley, The Law Society Gazette, December 2020
• Avoid courts to lessen the pain of family break ups - The Times, November 2020
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2021 - Co -author of chapter on England and Wales,  and editor.
• My pandemic - The Telegraph, July 2020
• Is it possible to divorce 'well' during a lockdown? - Tatler, July 2020
• Unmarried Couples & Schedule 1 Update - ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce webinar, May 2020
• Juggling work and life during Covid-19 - WiFL, April 2020
• How is COVID-19 affecting women in family law? Women in Family Law, April 2020
• Brexit and the race to divorce courts, The Times, January 2019
• Going your own way, Evening Standard, January 2019
• Waggott 'meal ticket' appeal leaves lawyers waiting for maintenance guidance, Law Society Gazette, November 2018
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2019 - contributing editor and author of chapters on international marital agreements: the approach by the English court on divorce; Brexit and Family Law ; and  England & Wales
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2017 [2017]
• Resolution – International Family Law online guide contributing author [ 2016] 
• Family Law Journal -  The lis pendens rules under Brussels IIa: has it created the certainty intended [ March 2016]
• What are your rights? Daily Mail 31 January 2016
• Family Law Journal  - The Treatment of European Marriage Contracts by the English Courts: all about intentions and an appreciation of implications?  March 2015
• International Family Law – The lis pendens rules under Brussels II – certainty over flexibility?  [ July 2015] [Part 1] and October 2015 [Part 2]
• Pre-nup tips: how to avoid killing the romance, You & Your Wedding, April 2014
• Claims under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 Second Edition (co-authored), Resolution, April 2013
• 'The Children and Families Bill could undermine gender stereotypes', article in The Law Society Gazette, March 2013
• New Law Journal: "Testing Times" (on the "new" test for enforcing LSC cost orders), 8 July 2011
• Family Law Journal, July 2011, "The Maintenance Conflict: Crystal Ball Gazing Versus a Meal Ticket For Life" (with Emily Moore)
• Times Online: Prenups - but what about love, romance and the wedding? October 2010
• International Aspects of Family Law: Chapters on Prenuptial Agreements, Financial Provision for Children and Good Practice on International Issues, Resolution May 2009
• Claims under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (Financial Provision for Children), Resolution March 2009
• Costs in Schedule 1 cases, The Review July 2008
• European Family Law Issues, International Family Law (Jordans) June 2008
• Law Society/Resolution Handbook (Chapter on marriage), 2007
• Bringing Harmony to divorce (Collaborative Law), The Times 21 November 2006
• Fourth Nordic Conference on Mediation and Conflict Management, International Family Law (Jordans) September 2006
• European Harmonisation and the EU Constititution, Family Law journal August 2005
• Collaborative Family Law: one year one, The Review, September 2004
• The new EU Brussels II Regulation, Review and International Family Law (Jordans) November 2003
• A World Apart the Law on Divorce in France and England, Solicitors Journal August 2003
• The Family Law protocol - revolution or evolution?, New Law Journal April 2002
• 1998-2001 - Solicitors Family Law Association (now Resolution) - Financial Consent Orders and Cohabitation Agreements
• Short Marriages and Financial Relief, Sweet and Maxwell 1997

 

Professional Societies/memberships and awards

• Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL)
• Resolution (member and former Chair of International Committee)
• Law Society and Law Society accredited mediator
• Member of the Central London Collaborative Forum
• Co-founder of the Association of Professional Working Parents
• Chambers UK - Band 1 for Family and ADR
• Chambers HNW - Band 1 for Ultra High Net Worth
• The Legal 500 - Hall of Fame for Family and Mediation
• Listed as a Citywealth Leader in Family and Matrimonial
• Doyle's Guide 2025, Leading High Net Worth Family Lawyers
• Doyle's Guide 2025, Leading Children Lawyers
• Doyle's Guide 2025, Leading Family Law Mediators

 

Further information

• Ranked in "Top Recommended" tier in Spear's 2022 Family Law Index
• Resolution trained and accredited mediator
• Trained Collaborative Family Lawyer
• Instrumental in setting up the collaborative family law model of dispute resolution in this country
• Included as a leading Family lawyer in the Citywealth Leaders List for the last 5 years