This course is amended and updated each year to take account of recent case law and new legislation and aimed at the private client practitioner. The detailed notes include practical examples, draft clauses and action points. The areas covered will include:-
Case Law Update including:
- Assessing testamentary capacity Ledger v Wotton
- Undue Influence – Goodchild v Bradbury
- Gifting assets Loosemore v McDonnell
- Retainer clauses - Phelps v Stewarts, Dinsmore
Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Taking instructions and drafting LPAs
- OPG/Court of Protection Update
- Welfare LPAs v Advance decisions
Local Authority Funding for Long Term Care
- Choice of accommodation – is there any?
- Who pays if the client moves to a different LA?
- Deferred payments after the Greenwich decision
- S117 MHA 1983 – the Poole decision
NHS Funded Long Term Care
- The National Framewok for NHA Continuing Healthcare
- The Screening Process/the decision support tool
- Challenging decisions – the risks and pitfalls