Practice overview
Charlotte has a particular interest in clinical negligence, personal injury, and professional negligence. Prior to joining Gatehouse Chambers as a Third Six Pupil, Charlotte undertook pupillage at a leading professional negligence set.
Charlotte has experience in dealing with a range of hearings including small claims, MOJ stage 3 hearings, ADR hearings, allocation hearings, and applications.
Before becoming a Barrister, Charlotte directed a series of documentaries in the healthcare sector, covering issues in obstetrics and gynaecology, human trafficking, and environmental health. Charlotte also has substantial public speaking experience, having delivered a lecture for the Royal Academy of Arts.
Outside of work, Charlotte photographs unusual libraries around the world.
Areas of expertise
- Clinical negligence & personal injury
- Clinical negligence
Clinical negligence
During her pupillage, Charlotte gained extensive experience in a range of high-value clinical negligence claims, including Obstetrics cases, and claims under the Fatal Accident Act 1976. Whilst under supervision in pupillage, Charlotte also gained experience in pleading schedules and counter schedules of loss and advising on liability and settlement parameters.
- Personal injury
Personal injury
Charlotte has a keen interest in personal injury and has recent experience of representing clients at MOJ Stage 3 hearings under the Pre-Action Portal.
- Clinical negligence
- Credit hire and road traffic
Credit hire and road traffic
Charlotte regularly appears in small claims matters in the County Court and has experience of fast track disputes; she has represented both Claimants and Defendants in liability disputes arising out of road traffic accidents. Charlotte also has experience of trials involving collisions with buses and emergency service vehicles.
Charlotte has secured successful outcomes in numerous credit hire cases, particularly those involving substantial Basic Hire Rate disputes; she also has experience in credit hire cases involving taxi cabs and commercial vehicles.
Charlotte has dealt with conferences and hearings both in person and remotely.
- Professional liability
Professional liability
During pupillage, Charlotte gained exposure to cases involving the alleged negligence of legal professionals, including in relation to the under settlement of clinical negligence cases. Charlotte has also dealt in her own right with a strike out application in a professional negligence action.
CSR & pro bono
Alongside her legal studies, Charlotte volunteered for a number of NGOs focussed on Middle Eastern and North African human rights issues; she also taught debating at HMP Pentonville and HMP Wandsworth.
Qualifications
- BPTC. City Law School. Very Competent. 2021.
- GDL. City Law School. Commendation. 2019.
- M.Phil. Faculty of English Literature. University of Cambridge. 2015.
- B.A. (Hons). English Literature. University of Warwick. First Class. 2013.
Prizes and scholarships
- Lord Denning Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
- BPTC Academic Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
- Accommodation Award (Lincoln’s Inn)
- BPTC funding (The Jewish Students Trust)
- Lord Haldane Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
- GDL Academic Scholarship (City Law School)
- Mountford Prize for Originality in Public Speaking (Girton College, University of Cambridge)
- Research Grant (Faculty of English Literature, University of Cambridge)
Professional associations
PIBA
Contact details
Practice managers
Natasha Devlin-Clingham
