Expertise
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’s most recently published book is Powers of Attorney for Property and Finance A Users Guide published by Bath Publishing.
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.
Career History
Ann joined Wedlake Bell LLP from Cumberland Ellis when the firms merged in April 2012.
Ann is a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP), the STEP special interest group on Mental Capacity and Association of Lifetime Lawyers.
Publications
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, Wealth Briefing, Private Client Advisor, Law Society’s Gazette and the Solicitors Journal as well as the national media.