Blake Lapthorn solicitors’ Mental Capacity
team has compiled a list of news, articles and press
releases for you which may be of interest to you.
Please click on the links below to view
the detail.
17 May 2012Blake Lapthorn has been named one of Top 25 law firms 2012 by Private Client Practitioner, who recently completed a survey of approximately 125 law firms operating in the private client sector in the UK.
16 Apr 2012Our Social Housing group highlights the Court of Appeal case that considered whether courts can intervene to protect adults even though they don't lack mental capacity.
23 Mar 2012In this issue about owner managed and family businesses: protecting the business in the event of relationship breakdown, succession and inheritance planning, dealing with accidents and loss of mental capacity.
30 Jun 2011Our Social housing group looks at the case of Wychavon District Council v EM, which has shown that those without sufficient mental capacity cannot enter into a tenancy agreement the consequences this has for entitlement to housing benefit.
21 Jun 2011James Antoniou, head of our Succession and Tax team in Oxford and local Solicitors for the Elderly member, warns of the dangers of applying for probate and dealing with an estate, without seeing a lawyer.
View the mental capacity news and updates
archive.
For further information or to talk to someone about issues
relating to mental capacity, please contact a team
member in the office nearest you:
Rachel
Brooks, partner and head of Private Client
Services group in our Portsmouth office, on 023 9228
2714 or at rachel.brooks@bllaw.co.uk.
James
Antoniou, partner in our Oxford
office, on 01865 254286 or at james.antoniou@bllaw.co.uk.
Fiona Fox,
solicitor in our Southampton and Portsmouth offices, on 023 8085
7282 / 023 9228 2748 or at fiona.fox@bllaw.co.uk.
Douglas
Smith, partner in our London
office, on 020 7814 5438 or at douglas.smith@bllaw.co.uk.
Alternatively, email our general enquiries helpdesk
on privateclientinfo@bllaw.co.uk.
