Charlotte was admitted in July 2024 and joined Cullinan & Associates in August 2025. Her practice focuses on environmental and public interest law, with experience in litigation, regulatory interpretation, and environmental governance.
Charlotte began her career at Dawson Edwards & Associates, a specialist maritime, commercial and environmental law firm, where she gained experience in vessel arrests under the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act and litigation concerning the allocation of commercial fishing rights. During this time, she also assisted in preparing environmental due diligence reports for international clients – one relating to the removal of submarine cables in the High Seas and Exclusive Economic Zones of coastal states, and another concerning the purchase of an aquaculture farm. She was also involved in BirdLife South Africa and Another v Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment and Others, a landmark case concerning the protection of African Penguin breeding colonies.
Since joining Cullinan & Associates, Charlotte has worked on a range of environmental and public interest matters, including litigation relating to oil and gas exploration and animal wellbeing cases involving primates. Her experience includes drafting environmental health and safety due diligence reports, drafting legal opinions on the interpretation and application of the National Environmental Management Act and the National Forests Act, and assisting on matters concerning land contamination under the National Environmental Management: Waste Act.
Charlotte holds both an LLB and an LLM (Marine and Environmental Law) and completed a short course in Constitutional Law and Nature through the University of the Western Cape in 2023. She is fluent in French, has studied German for six years, and commenced Russian at elementary level in 2024.
Charlotte has a particular interest in ecocentric approaches to environmental law and is passionate about advancing legal perspectives that recognise the intrinsic value of the natural world.