Committee Member
Zena specialises in contentious and non-contentious health and welfare and property and affairs matters in the Court of Protection, and in relation to capacity, best interests & community care law more widely, including hospital discharge, adult safeguarding, and pre action steps involving the Office of the Public Guardian. Zena has a particular interest in cross-border mental capacity issues including repatriation and recognition and enforcement of foreign measures, mandates and powers of attorney in relation to adults.
She advises and advocates on behalf of clients in complex cases, which frequently involve novel issues including cross-border disputes, serious medical treatment, complex deprivation of liberty disputes, and capacity to consent to sexual relations, to marry and to have contact. She also acts in contentious property and affairs cases including disputes involving lasting powers of attorney and deputies.
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