Naomi Winston’s busy practice covers litigation, drafting and advisory work with a focus on partnership, Court of Protection and probate matters. She is ranked in the legal directories for both partnership and Court of Protection work.
Ranked in Band 1 in Partnership and Band 3 for Court of Protection: Property and Affairs by Chambers UK 2022.
Court of Protection
Naomi is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor as well as by solicitors in private practice on Court of Protection property and affairs matters. She has a niche practice advising in relation to estates which contain business interests, particularly partnerships.
Recent Cases:
- Acting for the OS in an application to set up a limited farming partnership structure in circumstances where the attorney applicants were in a position of conflict.
- Acting for the OS in a statutory will application, including a request by the applicants to exclude a party affected by the application.
- Advising a professional deputy subject to a removal application in circumstances where the proposal was the replacement of the deputy with a trustee and where the jurisdiction of the COP was questionable because of the potential future capacity of a minor P.
- Acting for the OS in an application to approve the conversion of director’s loans to shares.
- Disputing appointment of deputy in circumstances where deputy was involved in production of potentially invalid will for P.
- Acting for the OS in an application concerning a gift of a beneficial interest in property by an incapacitated minor P and the making of gratuitous care payments.
- Acting for a lay deputy with a conflict of interest arising out of an executorship.
Recommendations
Qualifications
- LLB (First), Leicester University
Associations & Memberships
- Association of Partnership Practitioners
- Chancery Bar Association
Naomi Winston is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. She is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 50785] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/061] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. She is registered for VAT under the reference 938328691.