Nellie Con 2026: The Fourth One
About this Event
📅 Date: October 1st, 2025
🕒 Time: 09:00 AM
📍 Venue: Delta Hotels, Peterborough Business Park, Peterborough PE2 6GB
About Nellie Con 2026
Nelliecon 2026 is a socio-legal conference for forward-thinking professionals shaping the future of private client law, capacity, and care. This full-day, in-person conference brings together solicitors, will writers, deputies, social workers, and legal specialists, by sharing their expertise across sectors to foster innovation, share knowledge, and build connections that matter.
What to Expect:
Expert-Led Keynotes
Hear from leading voices in private client law, capacity, and social care on the issues shaping the sector in 2026 and beyond.
CPD-Accredited Workshops
Interactive sessions tailored to real-world challenges across Court of Protection, wills, mental capacity, deputyship, and safeguarding.
Panel Discussions
Engage in thought-provoking conversations with professionals across law, social work, and finance—addressing complex, cross-sector challenges.
Professional Networking
Build meaningful connections with solicitors, deputies, will writers, social workers, and industry leaders
Who Should Attend:
Solicitors (Private Client, Litigation, Court of Protection)
Will Writers and Estate Planners
Professional Deputies and Attorneys
Social Workers and Case Managers
Legal Executives and Practice Leaders
For more information, please visit our website or contact us at 📧 [email protected] or 📞 0333 987 5118.
Getting Costs Right
Getting Costs Right: Judicial Expectations, Emerging Issues and New Processes
Host: Georgia Clarke
Info: Court of Protection costs are under greater scrutiny than ever and getting them wrong has real consequences.
This practical session with Georgia Clarke (Peak Costs) covers what solicitors and professional deputies need to know right now, including:
- The impact of Re ACC and what it means for how you structure and justify bills of costs
- Judicial expectations around file management and what judges are actually looking for
- The new process for assessing costs following the death of P
- Key considerations for litigation costs in Property and Affairs matters
You'll leave with a clearer picture of where bills are failing, what the judiciary expects, and how to protect your costs going forward.
Suitable for: Solicitors, professional deputies, costs lawyers, and anyone involved in Court of Protection Property and Affairs work
Safeguarding by Design
Safeguarding by Design: Spotting, Recording and Escalating Concerns in Private
Host: Kirsty Findlay
Info: Safeguarding isn't just a social care responsibility, it's a core risk issue for every private client practitioner.
This practical session explores how will writers, solicitors, attorneys and deputies can spot red flags earlier, document decision-making more defensibly, and escalate confidently when concerns about capacity, coercion, financial abuse or neglect arise.
You'll leave with clear, practical steps to protect your clients, reduce professional risk, and work more effectively with social care teams, the OPG and safeguarding partners.
Suitable for: Will writers, solicitors, professional deputies, attorneys and private client practitioners working with vulnerable adults.
Modernising PC Practice
Modernising Private Client: Balancing AI, Compliance and Firm-Wide Performance
Host: Andy Hitchon
Info: Many private client firms are still running on fragmented systems, manual processes and workarounds in one of the most risk-sensitive areas of law.
This session draws on Andy Hitchon's experience as a former practitioner and current Head of Private Client at LEAP Legal Software and LEAP Estates to explore how firms can modernise without compromising control. Topics include:
- Where AI and automation can genuinely improve private client delivery
- How to adopt new technology without introducing compliance risk
- Practical steps for improving consistency and performance across your team
- What good looks like and what to avoid
Suitable for: Solicitors, practice managers, heads of department and private client professionals considering or already implementing legal technology.
The role of the Deputy
The role of the Financial Deputy
Host: Matthew Gilson
Info: Financial deputyship sits at the intersection of legal authority, clinical funding, and family expectation, and getting it wrong carries real consequences for P. This session cuts through the complexity with practical guidance you can use straight away.
Matthew Gilson draws on nearly two decades of Court of Protection experience to cover the full landscape of financial deputyship, from day-to-day management through to high-value and contested cases. The session includes direct reference to the landmark case of Lumb v NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB [2024] EWCOP 57, offering first-hand insight into what this decision means in practice.
What you'll take away:
Practical frameworks for financial management in deputyship, including managing risk and acting in P's best interests
A clear picture of the limits of a financial deputy's authority, and what to do when you reach them
A demystified overview of statutory funding, NHS Personal Health Budgets, and Local Authority Direct Payment
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 53.53 to GBP 80.80
