The Court of Protection Team at Outer Temple Chambers is widely recognised for its specialist advocacy and advice across health and welfare, property and affairs, and serious medical treatment cases.
Our barristers act for individuals, families, local authorities, NHS bodies, the Official Solicitor, and professional deputies, providing clear, pragmatic guidance in this complex and sensitive area of law. Members of Outer Temple Chambers have also appeared in several guidance cases in recent years.
Members of Chambers regularly appear in the Court of Protection at all levels, including cases involving deprivation of liberty, capacity disputes, and best interests determinations. Given Chambers global reach, our work often has a significant international flavour. Members of the Court of Protection team have experience of advising overseas territories and crown dependencies, and our cases frequently involve complex conflict of law and jurisdiction issues, such as cross border mental capacity cases.
Our team is known for combining legal excellence with empathy, ensuring that the rights, dignity, and best interests of vulnerable individuals are always at the forefront.
Our clinical negligence barristers are supported by a highly experienced clerking team, headed up by Paul Barton.
We are frequently instructed in complex, high-profile and substantial disputes, advising a wide range of clients, from public bodies to family members.
Our silks and juniors come from a wide range of backgrounds, often with dual expertise in other areas of chambers’ practice. Members of the team have covered cases concerning sterilisation, serious medical treatment and capacity in relation to sexual relations, as well as, human rights, local government and education law. We also offer recognised expertise in community care / social welfare law as it affects children and young people and their careers, with wide experience of cases in the Court of Protection, and public law duties around health, social care and education. Expertise in the Mental Health Act 1983, including experience of “end of life” cases, forms part of our strength in depth.
Members of the team have appeared in leading cases affecting this area in recent years, including guidance cases on lasting powers of attorney and deputyship.
The team is involved in the full range of work involving a person’s property and affairs, from statutory wills, gifts and lasting powers of attorney to high value and high-profile cases over the management of the affairs of wealthy individuals. We act and advise in both contentious and non-contentious cases.
Many members of the Court of Protection team also specialise in private client work and are able to advise on a range of trusts and probate issues.
Our team has experience covering a wide range of Court of Protection issues including:
The team includes members of the Court of Protection Bar Association, STEP, Court of Protection Practitioners’ Association and the Chancery Bar Association.
The team also boasts a number of members ranked in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
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Please contact Matt Sale on +44 (0)20 7427 4910 for more information. Our experienced practice management team will be pleased to provide you with more details of our expertise in this area.
