Lux is a private client offering created by Charlotte Leyshon. It is an exceptional family law service for the most discerning of clients. Charlotte is committed to providing an innovative, exclusive and personalised family law service.
Charlotte has specialised in private family law since 2003. Charlotte practised family law at the highest level in London until returning to South Wales in 2013 where she quickly became recognised as a market leader.
Since its inception in 2018 Lux Family Law has already become one of the market leaders in family law in South Wales dealing with cases at the highest of levels. Charlotte and the team recently acted for the Husband in the reported financial remedy case Traharne v Limb [2022] EWFC27.
Testimonials within the Legal 500 2024 describe Lux as “having grown year-on-year since it was established in 2018, five-strong Cardiff-based family law boutique Lux Family Law has made a strong imprint on the local market, as well as further afield, including London, where it picks up both standalone and referral work across a wide range of family matters.”
‘The firm has been hugely successful in securing quality high-net-worth divorce work. It has a very high-profile in the South Wales legal community and in the wider business community also.’
Charlotte worked at media law firm Davenport Lyons in Mayfair where she first acted for high profile media figures, celebrities, sports persons or their spouses.
Charlotte later joined Family Law in Partnership, a Covent Garden based niche firm, widely regarded as forward thinking and innovative in the London market. There, Charlotte acted for celebrities, entrepreneurs, business men and women and City professionals. It was in this role that Charlotte forged relationships with some of the UK’s leading sets of family Chambers, individual barristers and other family law practitioners. Charlotte dealt with cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the House of Lords, now the Supreme Court.
Charlotte was involved in the following high profile/reported cases:-
- Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186 (House of Lords)
- Re G (Children) [2006] 2 FLR 629
- L v (1) L (2) H (a firm) [2007] EWHC 140 (QB)
In the summer of 2013 Charlotte returned to South Wales and began working as an Associate in the family department at top 100 law firm Hugh James. With her London network Charlotte was able to practise in both the Cardiff and London offices. Charlotte was quickly promoted to Senior Associate before taking over as Head of the Family Department.
Charlotte quickly built a reputation as one of the leading family lawyers in Cardiff. This is reinforced by what the legal directories say about her: