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The family court made findings against Mr Griffiths of multiple rapes, domestic abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour (including post-separation coercive and controlling behaviour) and verbal abuse towards the child who was a few weeks old at the time. Charlotte is an award-winning human rights barrister at Goldsmith Chambers where she represents women and girls at risk of gender-based violence, particularly female genital mutilation (FGM). Combining the law and academia, Charlotte is a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge in law and sociology where she researches FGM law and lectures, Feminist Thinking in Society and in the Law. She was awarded her doctorate in FGM law and policy from King's College, Cambridge. Charlotte was instrumental in the criminalisation of forced marriage and the introduction of FGM Protection Orders. She collaborated with the National Police Chiefs’ Council to put together a new FGM and forced marriage legal procedure (see, Family Court Practice Direction 36H FPR).
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Dr. Lord completed her intern year of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Dr. Lord completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at UCLA in addition to a research fellowship focused on bony fusion in spine surgery. Dr. Lord's research includes bone biology and fusion, pediatric and adult spinal deformities, and innovation in spine surgery. She has authored numerous basic science and clinical articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Lord is a member of the North American Spine Society where she sits on several committees, the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Lumbar Spine Research Society, Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society, and AOSpine. Dr. Lord was born in Washington, DC and raised in Kenya, Egypt, and New Hampshire.
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Dr Charlotte Proudman represented children’s relatives whom applied for care, placement and adoption orders to be revoked. Applying for care, placement and adoption orders to be revoked is a very high test to meet. Dr Proudman was instructed on behalf of the children’s family members to make this application on the basis that they had not been thorough assessed by the local authority prior to the final orders being made. “I instructed Charlotte in a complex child abduction case that was appealed to the Court of Appeal.
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In partnership with the Good Law Project, Charlotte has founded ‘Right to Equality’, a not for profit that campaigns to change the law for women and girls. Dr Proudman represented the mother in a case concerning the admission of sexual images and videos and participation directions for vulnerable witnesses. The mother alleged rape, domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour.
Dr Proudman was successful on behalf of a mother in opposing the father’s application to initiate private law children proceedings in England and Wales. The parents and the children lived abroad in countries that are not signatories to the 1996 Hague Convention. The case concerned complex questions in respect of the interpretation of s.2(1)(b)(i), ss.2A(1)(a)(ii) and 42(2) the Family Law Act 1986.
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Charlotte is a pioneer in furthering legal change in landmark family law cases concerning rape, domestic abuse, and coercive and controlling behaviour. She uses her knowledge and experience of the justice system to advocate for legal change to ensure protection and support for victims and survivors. Dr Charlotte Proudman represented a complainant of domestic abuse at a successful appeal in which she set aside a fact-finding judgment where her allegations of rape, domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour were not proved.
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Dr Charlotte Proudman represented a victim of domestic abuse who was abused by her ex-partner, a senior social worker. The mother appealed the trial Judge’s refusal to disclose findings of domestic abuse to the father’s regulatory body, Social Work England. The mother was successful in her appeal and the Judge handed down guidance on the court’s approach to addressing applications to disclose court judgments to regulatory bodies. Two journalists made an application to publish the fact-finding judgment of HHJ Williscroft with the parent’s names. This application was supported by Ms Kate Griffiths MP who was represented by Dr Charlotte Proudman. The court highlighted the importance of a victim of rape, domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour having the right to ‘tell their story’ and the family court should not be used by perpetrators to silence victims.
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Dr Proudman represented the respondent father who opposed the child’s summary return to Ukraine under Article 13(b) because it is a war zone according to the father’s case. The Judge assessed the grave risk of harm or other intolerable situation by reason of the war or other on the basis of the specific context of the town in far West Ukraine (where the child would be returned to). This is one of few cases in which a summary return order is opposed because the country is a ‘war zone’. Dr Charlotte Proudman was instructed by Rights of Women in a guidance case on behalf of Latin American Women’s Aid, Women’s Aid and Refuge.
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Dr. Elizabeth Lord is a Board Certified fellowship trained spine surgeon and an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery. Dr. Lord specializes in complex spine conditions including adult and adolescent spinal deformity and scoliosis, reconstructive surgery of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine, and primary and metastatic tumors of the spine. This dual training has provided her with a unique background to treat complex spine disorders. Dr. Lord attended Harvard University for her undergraduate studies where she was a starting member of the nationally-ranked sailing team. Dr. Lord completed her premedical studies at Georgetown University and received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The child had consistently wanted to return to live with her mother. After a successful appeal, the child was separately represented and she achieved an order which allowed her to spend the majority of her time with her mother. On behalf of Kate Griffiths MP, Dr Charlotte Proudman successfully appealed an interim decision made by the family court. The court set aside an interim decision for direct contact between the child and the father (who had raped the mother) on the basis that PD12J had not been fully complied with amongst other matters.
Charlotte is experienced in judicial review cases that overlap with family law including asylum claims, unaccompanied minors, Article 8 ECHR and domestic violence ILR route. With extensive experience in violence against women and girls internationally, Charlotte specialises in cases involving FGM, honour-based violence, trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and religious conversion. Dr Proudman was instructed in a public law children fact-finding hearing in which they represented private foster carers who had fostered a child for several years. The judge found that the parents abandoned the child and the local authority breached its duties under the private fostering regulations.
She is accused by the Bar Standards Board of tweeting misleading information that “inaccurately reflected the findings of the judge in a case in which she was instructed”. There is no suggestion that Cohen and Havers discussed this case or any work matters or ever met at the central London club. But it highlights some of the issues around public perception raised by the membership of significant numbers of Britain’s most senior judges of a club that has resisted calls to allow female members since the 1960s. FGM–health, law, education and sustainable goals through upstream and downstream approaches. “Charlotte has excellent knowledge in the area of female genital mutilation law.
The decision made clear that the criminal law definitions of rape and consent do not apply in family proceedings. A failure to evaluate whether there was a pattern of abusive behaviour has profound implications both for the welfare analysis by Cafcass and the court’s final welfare decision. Dr Charlotte Proudman represented the mother at a fact-finding hearing in which the mother alleged sexual abuse, which was found by the court.
