Demi Arnold

I am a Solicitor in the Court of Protection ('COP') department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. I act for clients who are vulnerable and the subject of COP proceedings (‘P’). I also regularly act for family members in both section 16 and section 21A COP applications where there has been the removal of a family member to a specialist facility or care home at the objection of P’s family. I have also successfully challenged capacity assessments and deprivation of liberty orders. I regularly act for the Official Solicitor on behalf of P in a range of applications.

My experience of Court of Protection proceedings covers Health and Welfare matters, including mental capacity and best interest decisions.

I also represent clients in civil litigation proceedings and public law proceedings, encompassing appeals in the Upper Tribunal against disclosure and barring service decisions and acting for clients across a broad range of disputes involving breach of contract and negligence involving individuals, businesses and educational and other institutions.

• Law (Exempting) Master of Law and Practice (MLP) incorporating LLB (Hons) - 1st

• Solicitor at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (2024 – Present)
• Trainee Solicitor at Makin Dixon Solicitors (2023 - 2024)
• Trainee Solicitor at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (2022 – 2023)
• Caseworker at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (2021 - 2022)
• Litigation Assistant at PM Law (2019 - 2021)

• Leeds Law Society
• Leeds Junior Lawyers Division
• Alzheimer's Society Dementia Friend

• Traveling
• Reading
• Football
• Running

• Duncan Lewis secures discharge of Forced Marriage Protection Order in complex Court of Protection and Family proceedings (30 January 2026)
• Care Assistant Successfully Removed from the DBS Barred Lists After Upper Tribunal Appeal (8 April 2025)
• Understanding DBS Barred Lists: Your Legal Path to Appeal (18 November 2024)
• Duncan Lewis’ Court of Protection Team to Participate in Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk (16 August 2024)
• Demi Arnold Joins Leeds Court of Protection Team as a Newly Qualified Solicitor (24 June 2024)
• Judge ‘troubled’ by the interaction between Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard assessors and expert evidence in the Court of Protection (21 December 2022)