HAS JONES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the HR and Employment Team
- Senior HR Manager
Anna is a Senior HR Manager in our Court of Protection team, having joined us in 2020. For the 10 years prior to joining us, Anna worked in a senior HR role with a large care agency so that she is experienced in dealing with high volume and varied employment related issues. Anna is here to offer solutions and advice across all HR outputs from grievance and disciplinary, to more complex employee related advice and solution based support to family deputies who employ support workers.
Anna works closely with Lucy Law, our HR Director and the HR team to lead and offer best practice on the management of our HR services for our care workers employed by our professional deputies, to support our clients.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, Head of Expert Witness Team
Job Titles:
- Director
- Solicitor
- Director, Head of Private Client
- Solicitor, Director and Head of Our Private Client
Charlotte is an experienced solicitor, Director and Head of our Private Client team. She is also a Director of the Hugh Jones Trust Corporation which acts as corporate trustee and executor.
Charlotte has been listed as a 'Recommended Lawyer' in the Legal 500 2024 :
‘Charlotte Crawford is my contact solicitor. Both in my role as a trustee and for personal matters she has always been patient and understanding but also efficient and professional.'
She is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and has been a member of the Law Society's Private Client Section advisory committee for 5 years. Charlotte is also a full accredited member of Solicitors for the Elderly.
Charlotte advises clients on wills and future planning which includes advice on the use of trusts, particularly if the client has concerns about protection of their assets or wishes to provide for someone who may be disabled or unable to manage their own affairs.
Charlotte also assists personal representatives and executors in the administration of estates. She is known for her sympathetic approach and works with clients in difficult circumstances to ensure that the administration process is as easy for them as possible.
She also specialises in the creations and administration of trusts, particularly family and PI trusts; this might include advising trustees on their duties and the powers available to them, assisting them to comply with increasing regulatory requirements or completing tax returns and trust accounts.
Charlotte is delighted to help a range of charity and 'third sector' organisations with talks and presentations, either on line or in person - please contact her if your organisation would benefit from this.
Chelsea is a Case Worker in our Court of Protection team and joined Hugh Jones Solicitors in December 2021. She helps clients to manage their finances, working with our solicitor team to support their work.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, Head of Court of Protection Team
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Protection Executive
- Senior Members
Darren is an Executive in our Court of Protection team, where he undertakes case work and executive work for our clients.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Solicitor
- Director, Court of Protection Team
David is a solicitor and a Director, working in our Court of Protection Team
David has a wide understanding of the Court of Protection and mental capacity law, managing a case load of files that ranges from young children with acquired brain injuries to elderly clients living with dementia.
Throughout his varied caseload, David works to assist his clients across a broad range of issues, including:
Property and Finance applications;
Care funding and benefits claims;
Deprivation of Liberty questions;
Personal Welfare; and
Care proceedings.
Other than helping to manage the property and financial affairs of his clients, David also has experience of representing both Applicants and Respondents in contested Court of Protection proceedings, having successfully acted both for and against lay attorneys and deputies under investigation by the Office of the Public Guardian. David also has extensive experience undertaking financial conduct investigations in to both lay and professional attorneys and deputies, accepting instructions from lay clients, the Court of Protection and various Local Authorities in recent years.
In addition to his usual caseload, David regularly works with social workers in local authorities across the North West both in a professional capacity and to provide training and guidance on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and The Court of Protection generally.
Outside of work, David works with the Manchester Legal Advice Centre, offering free legal advice on capacity and welfare issues in the local community, which culminated in his being nominated for Best Contribution to Pro-Bono by an Individual at the LawWorks Awards 2017.
Job Titles:
- HR Advisor
- HR Specialist
- Member of the HR and Employment Team
Deborah is an experienced HR specialist, providing HR advice for Case Managers and support workers, employed by the Deputy to look after clients.
Deborah has previously worked in Human Resources with a number of organisations, including looking after new starters, producing contract documentation, arranging training and advising on disciplinary issues.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Solicitor
- Solicitor in the Private Client Team
Emma is a solicitor in our Private Client team, having qualified in November 2021 and joined us in 2022.
Emma has four years' of Private Client experience before joining us, as a paralegal, trainee solicitor and solicitor in a Tax, Trusts and Estates team. In this time she gained experience of:
Wills, Estates, Power of Attorney and Court of Protection deputyship work
Working with vulnerable and elderly clients
Trust based Wills, Powers of Attorney, Court of Protection applications and accounts relating to estate or deputyships
Dealing with Probate Applications and Estates administration
Declarations of Trust, Trust Documents and Loan Documents
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Fiona is a Senior Associate Solicitor with years of experience in all aspects of private client work. In addition to her private client work she has used her knowledge together with her understanding of mental capacity to support both lay and professional deputies, helping them make applications to the Court of Protection authorising the creation of Statutory Wills for clients that lack the capacity required to make their own Will.
Fiona has been instructed by many lay and professional deputies to support them in making sometime complex Statutory Will applications to the Court of Protection. She has worked closely with the Official Solicitor to reach amicable conclusions and on occasion has also been recommend by them.
Georgia is a Trainee Solicitor, currently working in the Private Client team. She joined the firm in November 2020 and worked with our Expert Witness team whilst completing her legal studies at the BPP University in Manchester, following her degree in Politics at Warwick University.
Georgia joined Private Client as a paralegal in July 2022, where she helps the solicitors in the team with Wills, Probate and Trusts and helped with :
Drafting Lasting Powers of Attorney
Completing Probate Documents
Conducting legal research
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate, Court of Protection
Job Titles:
- HR Advisor
- Member of the HR and Employment Team
Hayley joined Hugh Jones Solicitors in September 2020 as an HR Advisor, part of a team of 6 HR specialists.
Hayley works with and supports the Support Workers directly employed by our clients through their professional deputy. She will deal with a wide range of employee relations issues, advising employees, team leaders and family members.
Hayley has previously worked as an HR Advisor for an NHS health board employing over 17,000 people delivering services to over half a million residents.
Ian is a Case Worker in our Court of Protection team.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Operations and Compliance Director
Lucy joined Hugh Jones Solicitors as Senior HR Manager on our Court of Protection team in April 2019 and was appointed Director in 2022.
Lucy job shares this role with Anna Tonkinson and also works closely with Jenny Roberts, Operations and Compliance Director and the HR team to lead and offer best practice on the management of matters relating to Support Worker employment.
Lucy has worked in a senior HR role for several years in a care setting, qualified with The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Institute of Leadership and Management. Lucy is experienced in dealing with high volume and varied employment related issues. Lucy is here to offer solutions and advice across all HR outputs from grievance and disciplinary, to more complex employee related advice and solution based support to family deputies who employ support workers.
Jenny is Operations and Compliance Director, having joined the firm in 2013 as a Court of Protection specialist solicitor. Jenny now has a wide range of management responsibilities across the firm as a whole in addition to her work as a Director in the Court of Protection Team.
Her main areas of responsibility include operational management of the firm's office and support teams; overall responsibility for HR, reported to by Director Lucy Law; overall responsibility for compliance and regulation, working closely with Rachel Dobson, Consultant Director. Jenny is part of the firm's management team, working closely with Managing Director Liz Hughes and FD Jon Miller.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, Court of Protection Team
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Director
- Finance Director
- Director of Evolve Legal Business Solutions
Jon is a chartered accountant and has been Finance Director at Hugh Jones Solicitors since working with Hugh Jones and Rachel Dobson to set up the firm in 2013.
In addition to being responsible for financial planning & strategy, management information and supervision of the transaction processing team, Jon also has primary responsibility for information technology in the company. Jon provides personal tax advice to our Court of Protection clients, including the completion of income tax returns.
Jon qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985, working for Deloitte in Nottingham, London, Bermuda and Manchester before moving into industry. Jon has been working within the legal sector since 1997, including senior financial roles at both Addleshaws and Pannone.
Since 2011 Jon has been a director of Evolve Legal Business Solutions, a company providing financial management advice to law firms. Jon's experience includes all aspects of law firm financial management and his experience as a consultant with other legal practices includes profitability review, cash improvement strategies, reporting to banks, financial system enhancement and reviews of profit-sharing arrangements.
Jon has spoken on sector-related topics at various breakfast seminars in the north-west and was involved in the in-house legal sector training of NatWest Bank relationship managers in 2012 and 2013
Karen is a Licensed Conveyancer and works with Kate Forster in our Property team.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Kathryn joined Hugh Jones Solicitors in August 2018.
Her role is to assist the Directors in ensuring that the firm carries out its regulatory duties effectively and that it is in compliance with standards set by the Law Society and Solicitors' Regulation Authority. Her duties include carrying out audits of files and internal procedures, maintaining the office's policies and procedures, and providing training to other members of staff.
Kathryn qualified as a Solicitor in 2009 following which she specialised in Personal Injury law. She practiced as a Personal Injury Solicitor until deciding upon a career change in 2018 after having her two children. Kathryn is currently enjoying being part of the rewarding work that Hugh Jones Solicitors does for its vulnerable clients
Kelly joined our client support team in 2019 and is now a Case Worker.
She helps clients to manage their finances, working with our solicitor team to support their work.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Lucy joined the firm's Case Worker team in 2022, following 15 years of experience in this role at another practice.
Lucy has a significant level of experience working with clients with impaired capacity, and their families, in the management of their financial affairs. She ensures that the day to day financial affairs of our deputyship clients are looked after - from arranging mobile phones, to paying bills, insuring vehicles and properties or even helping with arranging holidays.
Lucy builds strong relationships with her clients, their families and other professionals and believes that this is vital to ensure that the client's financial needs are met. She is often the first point of contact for clients and works as part of a team with a solicitor or executive on each professional deputyship matter, under the guidance of the Deputy.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the HR and Employment Team
- Director, HR Team
Margaret Christodoulou is the Executive for the Expert witness team and can be contacted on Margaret.christodoulou@hughjonessolicitors.co.uk or her direct dial 0161 871 3686.
Megan Jones is a law graduate, gaining her degree at Leeds Beckett University. She gained experience in the NHS and a law firm, where she was responsible for looking after clients and working with team members to provide a good service.
Olivia joined our Private Client team in August 2022 as a paralegal.
She began her legal career in 2017 as an apprentice Legal Administrator, followed by an apprenticeship as a Paralegal, qualifying in 2021, having completed her CILEx Level 2 apprenticeship and CILEx Level 3 Paralegal apprenticeship.
Her experience before joining us included:
Drafting simple Wills
Drafting Lasting Powers of Attorney
Completing Probate documents
Conducting legal research
Conducting research into the values of chattels in an estate
and she is developing her legal career with us, assisting the solicitor team, across a wide range of Private Client work.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Solicitor