Ann Stanyer

Ann is a consultant in the Private Client team and an acknowledged expert in the field of elder law and financial abuse of older people.

Ann has held appointments for clients as attorney, and executor and trustee. She has also been appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection and as an independent executor and administrator by the courts.

• Ann has written and published her own book. ‘Powers of Attorney for Finance & Property: A User’s Guide’.
• Bloomsbury Professional published the second edition of Ann’s book, ‘Financial Abuse of Older Clients: Law, Practice and Prevention’ in 2020.
• Sweet & Maxwell published Ann’s first work, the authoritative ‘Personal Chattels – Law, Practice and Tax’, which gives an account of the law surrounding the ownership, transfer and taxation of personal chattels and how the law could be amended.
• She has also contributed to the Law Society’s 6th Edition of the Elderly Client Handbook and has been a contributor to Lexis Nexis’s publication ‘Finance and Law for the Older Client’.
• Ann contributes to webinars on mental capacity and financial abuse issues both within the profession and elsewhere.
• She regularly contributes to legal journals on the whole range of private client issues, including STEP Journal, WealthBriefing, Private Client Advisor, The Law Society Gazette and the Solicitors Journal, as well as the national media.

Ann is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the STEP special interest group on mental capacity and an association of Lifetime Lawyers.