The Legal 500

Work Department

Global practice group; estates, succession and trusts.

Position

Partner dealing with probate, succession and post-death tax planning; trust management; elderly client and Court of Protection work.

Career

Articled Withers; qualified 1987; partner since 1993; contributor to ‘Practical Will Precedents’ (Sweet and Maxwell); ‘Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents’ (Butterworths); editorial board ‘Elder Law Journal’ (Jordans); consultant editor and contributor ‘Finance & Law for the Older Client’ (Tolley).

Member

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, council member; chair Mental Capacity Special Interest Group; member of US National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Inc; Medico Legal Society; Solicitors for the Elderly.

Education

Kendal High School; St Hilda’s College, Oxford (MA Jurisprudence); Lancaster Gate College of Law.

Practice Areas

Mental health; Private client