Dr Charlotte Proudman
Barrister and Founder, Proudmans
Founder and Co-Director, Right to Equality
Dr Charlotte Proudman is an award-winning barrister and academic specialising in family law, with a focus on violence against women and girls. Renowned for her advocacy on domestic abuse, abuse, and misogyny in the justice system, she is a powerful voice for reform in family courts. Charlotte is the founder and co-director of Right to Equality, a nonprofit campaigning for equality under the law, and the founder and in-house counsel at Proudmans, a specialist family law firm.
Her pioneering legal work on coercive control, domestic abuse and systemic reform has shaped how family courts understand and respond to gender-based violence. Her cases have set national precedents, defining gaslighting and coercive control as forms of domestic abuse; setting aside findings where victims did not have special measures; and challenging the use of victim stereotypes and rape myths in judicial reasoning. Her book He Said, She Said has sparked international attention on injustices in the family law system.
