Hugh Jones Solicitors

Court of Protection and Expert Witness

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.

As Head of the firm's Expert Witness team, she co-ordinates the work of the firm's four expert witnesses, who are instructed by 40 leading Defendant and Claimant Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence firms, in claims where significant damages awards are involved. This is in addition to acting as an expert herself and managing a caseload of complex Court of Protection work.

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 is a full member of STEP.

https://www.hughjonessolicitors.co.uk/people/directors/catherine-eassom/