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What are the legal issues in Financial Services you should look out for going in to 2025?

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3 Minutes
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Legal Practice Insights
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16/12/2026

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Charlotte Pope Williams, a Barrister at 3 Hare Court discusses what legal issues in Financial Services should be looked out for in 2025. There are two things that are of particular interest in financial services practice at the moment. The first is in relation to financing for cars, and there is a case that has just come out recently in a court of appeal in 2024 which is now being appealed up to the Supreme Court. The second thing is debanking. This has been an issue which has been very topical in the news, in relation to Politicians. It is important for small and medium size enterprises who struggle to get access to financial services, particularly banking services.

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Charlotte Pope-Williams

Barrister

3 Hare Court

She has a particular specialism in financial services disputes including but not limited to acting for banks, pension funds, asset managers and insurers in commercial litigation and in relation to contentious regulatory matters involving regulatory authorities such as the Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”), the Financial Conduct Authority, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme amongst others.

Charlotte previously worked in the financial services disputes team at multinational law firm Pinsent Masons LLP for almost half a decade where she was involved in a number of high profile matters.

Charlotte is studying for her ICAEW Certificate in Insolvency which should be completed by Spring 2025 since she wishes to reinforce her commitment to the insolvency element of her practice.

Charlotte’s practice also includes ADR such as CEDR mediation and ARIAS arbitration notably as it relates to insurance and reinsurance. Charlotte is keen to further develop her international arbitration experience and welcomes mediator appointments. She is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIarb).

Charlotte practised as an employed barrister at the UK’s central bank in the Bank of England’s Legal Directorate before commencing work at Pinsent Masons LLP where she worked on a matters ranging from the PRA’s first ever major enforcement action against RBS, the Bank of England’s Alternative Liquidity Facility, LIBOR transition and the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into the Bank.

Charlotte is proud to be of Vincentian heritage and entitled to Vincentian nationality meaning that she can be admitted to the Bars of several Caribbean countries to practise law generally. Charlotte often works on matters arsing from the Caribbean, in particular the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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