denotes premium content | Dec 4 2008 Elderly Client Adviser archive
Volume 4 Issue 3
Features
Care, consent and competence
Many legal advisers who have older clients exercise substituted decision making powers, either as attorneys under enduring powers, or as receivers. These powers do not, however, enable decisions about medical or personal care to be made by attorneys or receivers in respect of individuals who lack mental capacity. Where such decisions have to be made - sometimes as a matter of life and death, sometimes as a matter of day to day management - the law is often misunderstood.
Case reports
Walker v Geo. H Medlicott & Son (The Times 25 Nov 1998)
Cash, but not clarity, for pensioners
In a post budget summary the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, a body dedicated to making the tax system more friendly to the needs of taxpayers on low incomes which was established by the Chartered Institute of Taxation, examines the effects of the Chancellors measures and questions why are they still so confusing and complicated.
Social Security appointeeship
Alan Robinson considers the law and practice of appointeeship and comments on the potential problems that may arise
The Budget : How it affects your clients
Nick Hussey reviews changes in the Budget (9.3.1999) that could affect you and your elderly clients
The Dowager Duchess grand plan
In an article originally written before the Budget, Christopher Sokol, barrister, considers the potential planning possibilities following the Ingram decision.
The role of hospital managers under the Mental Health Act 1983
The Mental Health Act 1983 places important duties on managers of hospitals where patients are detained. Such responsibilities include ensuring that the grounds for detention are valid, that the admission papers are in order and that detained patients are informed of their rights under the Act.
