We are delighted to announce that Dr Charlotte Proudman has been nominated for Junior Family Law Barrister of the Year in the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards 2020, largely as a result of her excellent and dedicated work on FGM cases.
As junior counsel, Charlotte represented the mother in Re A (A Child: Female Genital Mutilation: Asylum[2019] EWHC 2475 in which the President of the Family Division issued guidance as to how family courts should approach applications for FGM Protection Orders where a family’s immigration status is precarious. Charlotte was instructed as junior counsel on behalf of the mother in Re X (Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order No.2) [2019] EWHC 1990 (Fam) in which the court issued guidance on how to approach travel restrictions in FGM Protection Order.
