Charlotte Bradley

Recent reported cases

• ED v AP [2025] EWFC 399 a High Court case where we acted for the wife in a HNW private equity case and where the judge moved away from rigid formulas in approaching the division of carried interest in private equity funds.
• Y v Y (Financial Remedy: Marriage Contract) [2014] EWHC 2920 (Fam) – financial remedy proceedings in the High Court concerning the weight to be given to a foreign marriage contract
• A v B (Case C-489/14) CJEU October 2015 –  jurisdictional conflict regarding judicial separation between French and English courts.
• Re: N 2016 UKSC 15 – intervening on behalf of The International Centre for Family Law Policy and Practice
• Re: R 2016/1437 – intervening on behalf of The International Centre for Family Law Policy and Practice

Publications & Press

• Putting children first: rethinking the family lawyer’s role in separation, Solicitors Journal, 24 March 2026
• The law must put children first – not their warring parents, Times, 19 March 2026
• Putting Children First – the Evolving Role of the Family Law Professional report (Co-author of a Family Solutions Group report) 12 March 2026
• On grief, careers and teenagers Resolution issue 236, May 2025
• 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
• 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 & 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
• Founding Member of the Family Solutions Group
• Family Law Supervisors | Association of Family Law Supervisors

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)

“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 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)

“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)