Caroline Bielanska

  • Feature

    BOOK REVIEW The Elderly Client Handbook

    2011-02-17T00:00:00

    Author: Caroline Bielanska and Martin Terrell (editors)

  • News

    The legal needs of vulnerable clients

    2010-11-11T00:00:00

    Lindsay Taylor’s experience of financial institutions’ ignorance of the difference between a lasting power of attorney and court order will be a familiar story to most solicitors specialising in elder and capacity law.

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    Solicitors can be vital in preventing the abuse and neglect of elderly people

    2010-02-04T00:00:00

    On 7 January, Mr and Mrs Randell, an elderly Northamptonshire couple, were found dead in their freezing cold home. It was believed they had been dead for days. Although they died from natural causes, Northamptonshire County Council’s Safeguarding Adults Board is carrying out a review into the care provided.

  • News

    LPA error

    2009-10-29T00:00:00

    The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) has confirmed that on 1 October their website contained an error in the Property and Financial Affairs Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), where there was an incorrect additional part C (for the attorney to sign) included in the downloaded document.

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    Bitter will to swallow

    2008-10-02T00:00:00

    Readers may be aware of a new business model being launched where the legal profession is encouraged to ‘sign up’ to check online computer-generated wills for free. For more complex wills, the lawyer is able to charge for the service – but at no point would the lawyer meet the ...

  • News

    Lasting benefit

    2008-09-04T00:00:00

    I am writing in respect of new public guardian Martin John’s announcement of a review of the lasting power of attorney form (see [2008] Gazette, 7 August, 3). Key stakeholder organisations are already working together in preparation for this review and the wider review of the Mental Capacity Act.