Specialisms & expertise
- Managing clients’ financial affairs where they have appointed a professional attorney or deputy
- Liaising with clients in addition to their families, friends, carers and social workers to ensure clients’ needs are fulfilled and to help ensure an appropriate care regime is in place
- Building good relationships with family members to work together in the clients’ best interests, particularly following OPG or Court intervention leading to a change of attorney or deputy
- Planning with care professionals and local authorities to enable independent client living
- Liaising with benefit agencies with regards to applications for benefits to which the client may be entitled, including mandatory reviews and appeals
- Preparation of court applications to the Court of Protection
- Advising on the duties and responsibilities of deputies and attorneys.
Achievements & other appointments
Tamzin has enjoyed creating a large number of Dementia Friends on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Society within TS&P (as well as outside) as a previous Dementia Champion.
Education
Tamzin graduated from the University of London with an honours degree in history before gaining a distinction in the Common Professional Examination at the University of Sussex. She studied the LPC at Guildford College of Law before training with a small insurance litigation firm in London.