He Said, She Said - Truth, Trauma and the Struggle for Justice in Family Court

In the family court, traumatised women seek safety and justice, often to find only disdain and cruel insensitivity. Survivors of sexual, physical and emotional violence are called liars because they lack evidence for their claims, and deemed unreliable witnesses compared to the men who abused them. They are forced to recall the worst moments of their lives in excruciating detail, sometimes face-to-face with their violent ex, and always confronted with a lawyer who will do anything to destroy their story. Barrister Charlotte Proudman has represented countless women in cases spanning rape, domestic abuse, child abduction, forced marriage and female genital mutilation. She has seen first-hand how the family court deepens the trauma of vulnerable women, staking their futures on the biases of individual judges and forcing them to endure the torture of a judicial process that stretches over months and sometimes years. Drawing on shocking real-life cases, in He Said, She Said Charlotte lays bare the extent of misogyny and victim-blaming that infects our justice system: the court''s impulse to believe a man at all costs and to discredit a woman for any reason.

About the author

Charlotte Proudman is an award-winning barrister. She combines her legal career with her academic work as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she researches and teaches gender and inequality under law in the UK. In 2022, she founded 'Right to Equality', a radical organisation campaigning to change the law for women and girls and put gender justice at the top of the agenda.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Proudman
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781399612449
• ISBN: 978-1-399-61244-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Domestic Partner Abuse, LAW / Courts, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Domestic abuse, Law and society, gender issues