Ms Catherine Eassom > Hugh Jones Solicitors > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Hugh Jones Solicitors Offices
2, THE MALT HOUSE
DEVA CITY OFFICE PARK
MANCHESTER
M3 7BD
England
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Ms Catherine Eassom
Work Department
Court of Protection and Expert Witness
Position
Catherine is the Head of our Expert Witness Team. She is a Director of the Hugh Jones Trust Corporation and a Senior Associate Solicitor and has over 13 years’ experience of Court of Protection and Deputyship matters.
Catherine has an extensive background in working with clients who have suffered catastrophic injury including serious brain injury as a result of personal injury. Catherine has worked with many clients and their families to manage large damage awards to maximise their rehabilitation and quality of life. Catherine is closely involved with the management of damages both pre and post settlement of the litigation. Catherine works closely with her clients, their families, litigation team and Case Manager to set up care and therapy packages, purchase and adapt properties for her clients and ensure that the damages award is used effectively and in her client’s best interest.
Catherine is a specialist solicitor with a great deal of experience in Court of Protection and mental capacity work in which includes:
- Management of the professional deputyships of a large number of vulnerable people including those who have lost capacity due to catastrophic accidents or birth injury,
- Advising and drafting all types of Court of Protection applications including those for the appointment of a lay or professional deputy, statutory will applications, gift applications and applications for the discharge of a Protected Party
- Advising and drafting Personal Injury Trusts
Catherine enjoys building professional relationships with clients and their families to ensure she understands their individual needs in order to provide all of the support required of their Deputy/Trustee.
Catherine is a full member of STEP
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
A leading player in Court of Protection work, Hugh Jones Solicitors is regularly appointed as deputies to act on the behalf of vulnerable individuals. Name partner Hugh Jones
specilaises in mental capacity work, as well as complex asset tracing and financial abuse investigation work; he routinely works alongside Chris Gallagher, who is well versed in Lasting Powers of Attorney issues, the appointment and removal of deputies, as well as a broad range of property and affairs applications. The team has recently bolstered its capacity for a full-service, with the arrival of Jill Rushton from Stephensons Solicitors LLP, a move which expands the already strong private client team, headed by Charlotte Crawford. Managing director Elizabeth Hughes continues to oversee the practice’s Court of Protection work, including complex clinical negligence cases, while Catherine Oakes is actively involved in mental capacity and personal injury issues.