Editor's letter

Welcome to the January/February issue of Elderly Client Adviser, and a very happy New Year to all! The New Year and the start of a new decade bring with them new beginnings, and no more so than here at Elderly Client Adviser.

Feature
Time for a change?
CARL MARSTON looks at Labour’s proposals for a National Care Service.

News
In brief
Changes to rule 2 – in force as of 1 March 2010
Overhauling the CoP Rules
Out with the old...
Beware of will writers

Feature
Brussels IV – capacity and other issues
RICHARD FRIMSTON examines the draft regulation and sets out his thoughts on the relevant areas.

Regular
In search of beneficiaries...
The interest in “Make a Will” month has rekindled media interest in probate researchers’ work, and it was in the course of researching some case studies that the case of Sally Winds was brought up.

Feature
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 – is the legislation cracking?
MARTIN TERRELL provides an in-depth evaluation.

Feature
Profile: Lynne Bradey
JOANNA LEE talks to LYNNE BRADEY, recently made partner at Wrigleys solicitors and editorial board member, about the year gone by and the year ahead.

Regular
Case digest
Re Perrins, Perrins v Holland [2009] EWHC 1945 (Ch.)

Feature
Working with independent financial advisers
CLIVE BARWELL outlines the areas where private client practitioners should seek specialist advice.

Regular
Coldrick's comments
An Ohio medical graduate in the 1850s had a truly great idea: “It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine – a gun – which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and, consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished,” (Dr Richard Jordan Gatling – The Gatling Gun, Wahl & Toppel [1971]).

Feature
Cover story: Marketing to elderly clients
VIV WILLIAMS explores innovative ways to market and develop your practice when dealing with elderly clients.