Helen Freely
Helen Freely is a Partner in the Private Client team. Her background encompasses a broad range of private client work incorporating Wills, probate (contentious and non-contentious, UK and foreign domiciliary estates), trusts, court of protection work, lasting powers of attorney, tax planning and charity law.
Her practise currently is made up predominantly of the following sort of work: contentious trusts and probate, including acting as interim independent administrator; capacity issues, incorporating trusts for people with physical and learning disabilities and court of protection work; and smaller and start up charities.
Helen is recommended in the 2013 edition of Legal 500 for Charities and Not-for-Profit.
Memberships include Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Solicitors for the Elderly, Mencap, The Thomas More Society, and the British German Jurists Association. She speaks fluent German and is happy to take on cases with a German or Austrian element. Publications of note include articles written for the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, LexisNexis, the Private Client Adviser and appearing on BBC Breakfast Television and BBC Radio Solent discussing a range of private client subjects. In her spare time, Helen enjoys the theatre, arranging charity fundraising events, tennis and scrabble.
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