Description
Available to pre-order
The Older and Vulnerable Client Handbook provides comprehensive information and practical guidance to help practitioners navigate the legal and practical issues that arise when acting for older and vulnerable clients, as well as their appointed attorneys and deputies. Bringing together leading experts in the field, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date guide to the relevant law and practice.
What's new about this edition
- understanding vulnerability and the factors that place clients at risk of harm
- digital lasting powers of attorney
- digital deputyships
- fees and benefits
- predatory marriages
- Law Society practice notes and guidance
- NHS structures and continuing healthcare
- social care funding
- changes to the registration of deaths
- significant recent case law.
The Older and Vulnerable Client Handbook (previously Elderly Client Handbook) is published with the Association of Lifetime Lawyers, the Older and Vulnerable Client Handbook remains an essential source of practical advice and guidance for both new and experienced practitioners.
Why you need this book
- Assists when navigating the legal and practical issues that arise when acting for older and vulnerable clients, as well as their appointed attorneys and deputies.
- Offers comprehensive and up-to-date guidance on the latest law and practice.
- Ideal for use by new and experience practitioners
- Published with the Association of Lifetime Lawyers.
Who should buy this book
- Private client solicitors
Content
Part A: The Legal Framework
- Capacity and best interests decision-making
- Acting for the older client
- The older client practice
- Managing financial affairs
- Legal proceedings
- The older and vulnerable client, society and the law
Part B: Welfare and Medical Treatment
- Social care policies
- Care and support services
- Commissioning care
- Provision of healthcare
- Health and welfare decisions
- Mental health legislation
Part C: Finance and Benefits
- Social security benefits
- Local authority financial support
- Other financial support
- Financial matters
Part D: Inheritance and Death
- Gifts
- Testamentary dispositions and trusts
- Death
About the General editor
Caroline Bielanska is a solicitor, trainer and author, and a member of STEP. She is the former chief executive of the Association of Lifetime Lawyers. The Association of Lifetime Lawyers is an independent, national organisation of lawyers, such as solicitors, barristers and chartered legal executives, who provide specialist legal advice for older and vulnerable people, their families and carers.
Review of previous edition
The clear advantage of a practitioner-author team is that the reader is confident the Handbook contains information you want or need to know, practical tips and clear links to further sources. Sophie O’Connell is a Partner at Wolferstans LLP and a member of the Private Client Section committee
Book Information
ISBN 9781784462789
Format Paperback
Pages 496
Publisher The Law Society
