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.
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.