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Volume 2 Issue 4
Features
Elderly Clients: A Personal View
On the eve of her transfer from private practice to local authority law, Anne Edis takes the opportunity to reflect on a wide variety of issues relating to elderly clients.
It is a personal reflection on a number of years dealing with the elderly and the problems they face.
Charges on Property
Philip Laidlow explores several aspects of Section 22 of HASSASSA 1983
Court of Protection: Case Reports
Enduring power of attorney 'Capacity Solicitor receiving instructions from a third party'. Seeing the client alone 'Need for contemporaneous medical evidence'. Reading the explanatory information in Part A of the prescribed form 'questions susceptible to the answers Yes or No' Capacity to revoke an enduring power.
Financial Implications
Ian McNeill of Help the Aged briefly summarises the SEFTON case putting it in a more political context and provides his interpretation of the likely financial implications.
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A Summary of Local Authority Charging Procedures For Permanent Accommodation
Sefton: Is there a Duty of Care for the Elderly?
Jean Gould, Project Solicitor for the Public Law Project, describes the background to the Sefton case and examines what the judgment means.
Will there be enough to pay for the Funeral?
Margaret Richards, Solicitor and Adviser on Community Care examines some of the detailed financial implications of the Sefton case.
Gloucestershire: The Final Judgment
Stephen Cragg, the Solicitor for the applicants in the Gloucestershire case and now a Barrister specialising in Community Care examines the final judgment in this important case
