Zena Bolwig

Practice Areas

Zena specialises in health and welfare mental capacity and best interests law, particularly cases in the Court of Protection, and in broader community care law.

She advises and advocates on behalf of clients in complex cases, which frequently involve novel issues including cross-border disputes, serious medical treatment, complex deprivation of liberty disputes, and capacity to consent to sexual relations, to marry and to have contact. She also acts in contentious property and affairs cases including disputes involving lasting powers of attorney and the appointment of deputies.

The large majority of Zena’s cases have resulted in vulnerable clients returning to their homes, or to less restrictive care settings, or in regaining contact with loved ones, in line with their or their families’ wishes.

Career

Zena trained as Barrister and was called to the Bar in 2007. She then qualified as a solicitor in 2012. Prior to joining Keystone Law, she worked at the following firms:

The Office of the Official Solicitor

Fisher Meredith

Simpson Millar

Mackintosh Law

Professional Memberships

Member of the executive committee board of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association (COPPA)

Accredited legal representative (ALR) under the Law Society’s Mental Capacity (Welfare) Accreditation scheme

Associate member of the National Mental Capacity Forum

Work Highlights

Hinduja v Hinduja and others [2022]: welfare and property and affairs disputes relating to Srichand Hinduja

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2022/36.html https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2022/37.html

In the matter of AB [2020]: habitual residence, recognition of foreign protective measure and deprivation of liberty

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2020/47.html

In the matter of MB [2019]: withdrawal of treatment and advising MB’s mother in the latter stages of the litigation:

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2019/29.html

In the matter of AT [2018]: costs award against LB Harrow arising from a community deprivation of liberty case

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2018/37.html

In the matter of M [2018]: forced marriage and capacity to marry including extensive fact finding

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2018/2.html

In the matter of P [2015]: instructed by P’s mother in a deprivation of liberty challenge resulting in detailed guidance

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2015/54.html

Awards