Time for solicitors to embrace new technology?
Well-designed, secure technology can help private client solicitors to manage their clients’ affairs more efficiently and avoid some of the most common problems associated with carrying out [...]
Should funds from a Personal Injury Award be managed through a Deputyship or a PI Trust?
Watt v ABC [2016] EWCOP 2532 revisits the subject of whether a mentally incapacitated person’s damages for a personal injury should be managed through a Deputyship or a Personal Injury Trust. In [...]
Statutory Wills – NT v FS and others [2013] EWHC 684 (COP) – determining what was in the best interests of a mentally incapacitated person who needed a Will
The Court of Protection authorised: an application by a Deputy to execute a statutory Will on behalf of a mentally incapacitated person FS (‘F’); and, a lifetime gift of £50,000 to his mother TS [...]
