Cansu Hussein

Head of Court of Protection

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Cansu Hussein studied his law degree at the University of Westminster, graduating in 2011 with a First Class Honours. Cansu then completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in London where she achieved a distinction. Cansu subsequently joined Gillhams Solicitors, a tier 2 Legal 500 firm specialising in Court of Protection matters to complete her two-year training contract, qualifying as a solicitor in 2018. There she remained for a further three years practising as a private client solicitor.

Cansu joined Pinney Talfourd in 2021 in our private client team. Cansu mainly assists Matthew Edwards, a Panel Deputy of this Firm, to manage the property and affairs of client’s who suffer from a loss of mental capacity. Cansu also assists family members with making an application to the Court of Protection when a relative has lost capacity and they require a Deputy to be appointed.

In 2025, Cansu was promoted to Senior Associate and in 2026 Head of Court of Protection.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE

On a personal note, in her spare time Cansu likes to travel and explore the UK and abroad.

Noteable achievements

  • Managing the property and affairs of a child who suffered from cerebral palsy and was awarded a multimillion-pound settlement claim. Cansu assisted the Deputy throughout the litigation claim and post settlement.
  • Specific Health and Welfare applications to the Court of Protection.
  • Complex Deputy appointments involving multi-million-pound assets.
  • Submitted claims to the Court of Protection to recover assets as well as for the disclosure of bank statements and other associated information from the former Deputies and Attorneys.
  • Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure our clients entire legal affairs are managed, this has involved referring clients to Commercial Property, Conveyancing, Family (contact orders), Clinical Negligence and Property Litigation.
  • Investigating an individual’s finances to provide a gratuitous care report to the Court of Protection to settle a family dispute as to whether a daughter was receiving a reasonable amount of care for looking after her father.
  • Investigating a Solicitor who was an Attorney for a client. The investigations revealed the solicitor had financially abused the client by using the funds in her bank account, entering a declaration of trust to place an inherited property into his name and raising invoices for meetings which did not occur. The financial abuse was in the region of £1 million. The result was that the solicitor was struck off by the SRA.
  • Assisting with an ongoing Litigation Claim for a child with cerebral palsy. Cansu had to budget the interim payments to ensure that they were enough until such time where the claim was settled.

Qualifications & memberships

  • THE ASSOCIATION OF LIFETIME LAWYERS