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Partner, Court of Protection

Louise Mathias Williams

Louise is a Partner in Thomson Snell & Passmore’s dedicated Court of Protection team. She has over 10 years’ experience in advising and supporting vulnerable clients, their families and wider support teams. She became a Partner in 2022. Louise’s expertise spans helping elderly clients in later life, many of whom might need support as a result of, for example, living with Dementia, as well as clients who have sustained serious brain injuries as a consequence of having suffered an injury at birth or a catastrophic accident.

Louise’s work focuses very much on the effective management of her clients’ financial affairs where individuals unfortunately lack capacity to handle those types of decisions themselves. Many of her clients have received significant compensation awards as a result of their injury, or their estate has built up during the course of their lifetime.

Louise also has a particular interest in advising on making other applications to the Court of Protection and dealing with community care and care fee funding matters. She values an empathetic and pragmatic approach, working closely with her clients and their wider team to ensure her clients’ needs are met in the most effective way, with a consistent focus on their best interests.

Louise Mathias Williams

Specialisms & expertise

  • Managing clients’ financial affairs as professional deputy and attorney
  • Advising on and preparing applications to the Court of Protection for statutory wills, lifetime gifts, loans and other discrete matters
  • Assisting lay deputies and attorneys on making applications to the Court of Protection and advising them on their various duties and responsibilities
  • Navigating social care matters, such as challenging local authority financial assessments, the application of financial disregards for care fee funding purposes and the best interest decision making processes
  • Investigating financial abuse concerns and reporting to the Office of the Public Guardian and the Court
  • Advising on Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) where there are concerns about someone’s capacity to make an LPA.

Achievements & other appointments

Louise is a fully accredited member of The Association of Lifetime Lawyers (formerly known as Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE)) and a member of the Professional Deputies Forum.

Thomson Snell & Passmore is an active member of the local Dementia Friendly Community, for which Louise is the firm’s representative.

Louise has written various articles for such publications as the Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal, STEP and This is Money.

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Education

Louise gained a First Class honours degree in English Literature from Warwick University and her Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course from the College of Law, London. Louise has been practising as a solicitor since 2012.

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