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Boyes Turner Offices

Boyes Turner
ABBOTS HOUSE
ABBEY STREET
READING
RG1 3BD
England
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Alexander Wright

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Work Department

Court of Protection

Position

Alexander is a Partner and professional deputy for property and affairs and works principally with clients who have suffered injuries at birth with lifelong care needs and multi-million pound settlements. His focus is managing files with complex and volatile family dynamics, matters with complicated financial arrangements, and statutory will applications. Alexander also leads the litigation support service line in the team, preparing expert reports and witness statements on deputyship and private trust costs, receiving instructions from third party law firms.

Alexander became a director of the Professional Deputies Forum in 2019 and played a leading role in the case of PLK & Ors [2020] EWHC B28 (Costs), as a Deputy for PLK.

Career

As a Partner in Boyes Turner’s highly regarded Court of Protection team, Alexander has assisted with many of the more complex matters since joining the firm and has a reputation for being thorough, logical and financially aware. His areas of focus are managing files with complex and volatile family dynamics and matters with complicated financial arrangements. Alexander also prepares expert witness statements on deputyship and private trust costs.

His technical and methodical approach to his cases ensures that all aspect of the client’s life are addressed in finite detail.

Alexander was awarded a distinction in the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Advanced Certificate in Advising Vulnerable Clients.

Memberships

Director of the Professional Deputies Forum Ltd, 2019 to present.

STEP Advanced Certificate in Advising Vulnerable Clients with distinction, 2017

Education

Qualified in 2013 and moved from Irwin Mitchell to Boyes Turner in 2016. He was promoted to senior associate in 2018 and to Partner in 2021.

Leisure

In his spare time, you’ll find Alexander at the piano or playing the guitar, singing and recording songs of his own composition.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Court of protection

(Next Generation Partners)

Alexander Wright – Boyes Turner

The ‘very brilliant and helpful’ Ruth Meyer is the practice head at Boyes Turner. It fields a well-organised team which specialises in the management of the property and affairs of high-net-worth individuals who lack capacity, whether they be children, adults or the elderly. The majority of its clients have substantial claims for personal injury or clinical negligence compensation. As well as professional deputyships, the team is regularly approached to provide advice to support lay deputy applications. Alexander Wright, who is ‘the epitome of a very ethical lawyer, and has a good following’, also acts as a professional deputy for property and affairs and works principally with clients who have suffered injuries at birth with lifelong care needs.

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