Mental Capacity and Housing
Looking at mental capacity in housing cases including litigation capacity, injunction capacity, the CPR; who has power to do what on behalf of persons lacking capacity.
Puja Desai
An associate solicitor, Puja specialises in a wide range of aspects relating to the Court of Protection and Mental Capacity Act 2005. Many of her clients lack capacity to make decisions for themselves due to dementia, brain injury, autism, learning difficulties, hoarding disorder or other mental health issues. She also assists our housing team with advice on all mental capacity related issues.
Puja has extensive experience of making deputyship applications (both finances and welfare), statutory will applications, gifting applications, removal of deputy applications, representing family members in Court of Protection welfare proceedings, providing general advice in relation to the Court of Protection, capacity related issues and Deprivation of Liberty Orders (DOLs). She has recently been recognised in the Legal 500 Directory as a key lawyer whilst the team is acknowledged as a tier 2 firm.
Helen Tucker
Helen Tucker is one of 4 partners leading our large housing management team in our Birmingham and Manchester offices and heads up the Birmingham based housing litigation team.
With over 30 years’ experience in social housing, Helen continues to provide specialist advice to social landlords as well as charities and housing co-operatives on all types of housing-related litigation and advice relating to tenants, licensees and leaseholders. This includes reviewing policies and procedures, delivering training and assisting landlords with managing unreasonable or serial complainers as well as regular county court advocacy and case management.
Ranked as a Band 1 social housing lawyer in Chambers legal directory for many years, Helen has also run numerous appeal cases on leading housing law issues.
A previous SHLA national committee member, Helen also sits as a Deputy District Judge in the Midlands’ circuit, appointed in 2021 and is a trustee of a small international children’s charity.
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