Charlotte Hadfield

Call 1999
Email charlotte.hadfield@3pb.co.uk
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Charlotte is an experienced and dedicated practitioner specialising in employment, education and asset forfeiture law.  Called in 1999, she initially specialised in criminal law and developed her skills as an advocate in countless jury trials before moving into her current fields.  She has appeared in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the First Tier Tax Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the Crown Court, the County Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal (both led and alone) and the House of Lords.

Charlotte has a strong client care ethic and works closely with those who instruct her to ensure that her lay clients understand exactly what is happening and why at every stage of their case.

Notable Cases

Hunova-Trans Kft v Revenue & Customs Commissioners (2011) -
the Upper Tribunal (Tax Chamber) ruling upheld the Commissioners' decision not to restore a vehicle seized from an international haulage company for smuggling cigarettes.

R v Islam [2009] UKHL 30 -
landmark case reversing a long line of authority under which the value of drugs in the hands of a defendant must be treated as having no market value.

R v M [2008] EWCA Crim 3110 -
instructed to draft receivership papers, resist D’s appeal against his confiscation order, and resist his application for judicial review of the enforcing magistrates' court's decision to order him to serve the default sentence;