Hughes Fowler Carruthers


Caroline has extensive experience across the whole spectrum of family law work, particularly in relation to complex financial disputes arising on divorce and separation, disputes involving children and the drafting and negotiation of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.

Caroline joined Hughes Fowler Carruthers in 2008, rising rapidly to become the firm’s first promotion to the partnership in over ten years.

She joined from international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she was a tax lawyer. During her time at Freshfields, Caroline worked on a wide range of cross-border, commercial transactions, involving both corporate clients and major financial institutions.

Caroline has worked on a number of reported cases and has built up extensive experience across the whole spectrum of family law work, in particular in relation to complex financial disputes arising on divorce and separation, disputes involving children and the drafting and negotiation of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.

Clients have great confidence in Caroline’s calm and thorough approach and describe her as determined, clever and focussed, combining this with genuine kindness and warmth.

Caroline has been consistently ranked in the leading legal directories for several years and is featured in the Spear’s Family Law Index’s ‘Top Recommended Family Lawyers’ list. Chambers UK 2024 and Chambers HNW 2024 praise Caroline for her “extraordinary perception” and her “ability to see right through cases”, with one source noting “Caroline is incisive, very intelligent and has an excellent balance between providing clients reasonable expectations and fighting for their case.” Another Chambers source enthuses “Caroline is one of the most numerate solicitors I’ve come across, and she brings a commercial element to it too. She has a human side to her that clients love.” A Chambers UK 2023 source noted that she is “just brilliant; calm under pressure, measured in her approach, very bright and excellent in her judgement,” with another stating “she is so polished and her technical understanding is exceptional.”

Chambers HNW 2023 describes Caroline as “a class act,” stating that “she is the perfect combination of being exceptionally bright and technically able, but at the same time pragmatic and conscious of getting the right outcome for the client.”

The Legal 500 UK 2024 reconfirms Caroline’s rating as a ‘Leading Individual’. The Legal 500 UK 2022 praises her for being “one of the best lawyers of her generation”. The Guide highlights that she is “supremely bright, super organised and calm and devout in the furthering of her client’s best case” as well as “highly emotionally intelligent” noting “she can read a client, a judge or the other side to maximum effect”.

Her interests outside work include travel, hiking, food and wine and reading.

Caroline has a first-class degree from Cambridge University and a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago.

Recent News

31 May

Caroline Park to sit on the international judging panel for the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2025
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07 Mar

Caroline Park wins Woman of the Year – Professional Services at the Powerwomen Awards 2024
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18 Jan

Greater transparency in divorce money cases
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7421 8383
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Email: [email protected]

Academy Court
94 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1DT

Tel: +44 (0)20 7421 8383
DX: 251 London/Chancery Lane
Email: [email protected]