About Lilian
Lilian has a wealth of Court of Protection experience. Lilian’s current case load consists of a mixture of contentious and non-contentious Court of Protection and Private matters.
Lilian is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor, family members and professional advocates in health and welfare proceedings. Her diverse client base has allowed her to gain significant l experience in dealing with incapacitated adults, clients with fluctuating capacity, drug and alcohol addictions, family disputes, financial abuse and clients with mental health disorders.
Lilian specialises in:
- Deputyship applications and services
- Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Deprivation of Liberty and Safeguards (DoLS)
- Welfare disputes concerning persons who lacks capacity
- Mental Capacity and best interest
- Issues affecting the elderly
- Financial abuse investigations and claims
As an accredited member of the Law Society Mental Capacity (Welfare) Panel, Lilian has experience acting as an accredited legal representative in welfare matters for persons who lack capacity to conduct the proceedings.
Lilian is a passionate advocate for people with disabilities and strives to place the needs of the vulnerable individuals she works with at the centre of her practice.
Lilian has delivered a series of external training webinars for a number of advocacy organisations.
Lilian previously undertook training in advising clients in Wills, Trusts & Probate matters.
Professional Credentials, Memberships and Accreditations
- SRA Regulated Solicitor
- Law Society Profile
- Accredited Legal Representative Mental Capacity (Welfare)
- Member of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association (COPPA)
Career
- GN Law, Consultant Solicitor (Jan 2026-present)
- GN Law, Senior Associate Solicitor (Jan 2025-Jan 2026)
- GN Law, Solicitor (Jan 2025-present)
- HAB Law, Solicitor (July 2024-Dec 2024)
- GN Law, Associate Solicitor (Sept 2023-July 2024)
- GN Law, Solicitor (Sept 2021-July 2024)
- GN Law, Trainee Solicitor (Sept 2019-Sept 2021)
- GN Law, Paralegal (Aug 2018-Sept 2019)
- City of London Appeals Clinic (Oct 2017-Dec 2017)
- McKenzie Friend at the National Centre for Domestic Violence (Mar 2017-June 2017)
- Michaelides & Michaelides Advocates LLP, Cyprus, Intern (July 2016-Sept 2016)
Education
- University of Surrey, LLB (Honours) Law
- University of Law, LPC with Masters of Law
Languages
Lilian is fluent in Greek.
Personal Interests & Activities
Lilian is passionate about psychology and philosophy. She enjoys painting, art and theatre classes and volunteering for a number of charities.
Cases
NHS North Central London ICB v PC et al [2024] EWCOP 31
The case concerned PC, a 31 year old woman, who suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest and collapsed at home. A lack of cardiac output for about 30 minutes led to her brain being deprived of oxygen. She was left in what has been assessed as a Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness (‘PDOC’). The ICB made its application to the Court of Protection on 2 February 2024, seeking determinations under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (‘MCA 2005’), including a declaration that it is not lawful, and not in PC’s best interests, to continue to receive the life-sustaining clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (‘CANH’) and that it would be in her best interests to refuse to consent to the continuation of CANH and other life-saving treatment.
Lilian represented PC’s mother, MC who was the third respondent in the proceedings. MC’s position was clear that she did not wish for CANH to be discontinued. Mr Justice Cusworth decided that, factoring the medical evidence of PC’s condition which suggested that PC may had been in pain, it was not in PC’s best interests to continue to administer to her life-sustaining medical treatment in the form of CANH but rather that, it was in her best interests to begin to implement for her a palliative care regime the consequence of which (but not the aim) will be the end of her life.
Lilian assisted MC in bringing an application to the Court of Appeal to appeal the decision of Cusworth J in NHS North Central London ICB v PC et al [2024] EWCOP 31 on the basis of four grounds. In this case, counsel for MC suggested that the time might have come to revisit the established principles relating to life-sustaining treatment laid down in Aintree Hospital NHS Trust v James [2013] UKSC 67 (“Aintree”).
The Court of Appeal made it clear that Aintree remains the lodestar which guides the courts when considering these anxious cases and it that the sanctity of life is not absolute and that life sustaining treatment can nevertheless be withdrawn where it is not in the best interests of the patient. The courts have been most reluctant to lay down general principles which might guide the decision. The Court of Appeal refused permission to appeal the decision.
