Multi-award-winning barrister, academic, campaigner, and author of He Said, She Said: Truth, Trauma and the Struggle for Justice in the Family Court.
Campaigner
For over a decade, Charlotte has fearlessly promoted gender equality under the law. She has successfully spearheaded campaigns to change the law for women. Recognising that the law was historically built by men for men, she argues that the law needs to reflect women’s lived experiences. This requires activism and campaigning to change laws that do not work for women.
Charlotte has changed the law to better protect women.
Charlotte was instrumental in the criminalisation of forced marriage, virginity testing, hymenoplasty and child marriage. Alongside Girls Not Brides, Charlotte advocated increasing the age of marriage from 16 to 18 years old. She was at the forefront of introducing FGM Protection Orders, a novel legal remedy that protects victims at risk of FGM. As a barrister, Charlotte helped to draft legislation to change the law.
Right to Equality
Charlotte established Right to Equality, a not-for-profit organisation that uses the law to protect and further the interests of women and girls. They campaign to change the presumption of child contact with an abusive parent, challenge judicial sexism and bias, de-criminalise abortion, criminalise sexual harassment and sex for rent.
