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Charlotte Bradley

Senior Consultant
+44 (0)20 7814 1279 cbradley@kingsleynapley.co.uk

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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 Recommended in Spears Family law index in 2025. 

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.

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 has trained as a Business and Life Coach and has a diploma in Reflective Supervision’, pursuant to which she supports junior and senior family lawyers. 

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

 

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Professional Societies/memberships and awards

 

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 

 

Further information

  • 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
  • Charlotte was shortlisted as Family Law Partner of the year in 2019 in both the Family Law Awards and Chambers High Net Worth Awards.

 

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