Author: ybtheme

In October 2017, the FCA noted that 50% of British Adults were believed to be financially vulnerable, but what does this actually mean and how does that stand today?…

Increasingly we get reports from solicitors that GP’s are either declining to conduct mental capacity assessments or that the outcome of such assessments is questionable. Yet in reality, is this really surprising? …

Mental capacity and communication are intricately linked. There are two assertions that can be made about the relationship between the two…

I was recently asked to review an assessment of capacity in relation to a person’s will. The report stated “I asked P if he knew what the value of their estate and P replied ‘No’”. The author of the report drew from that the conclusion that ‘P’ did not have capacity to make a will….

A new law under which all adults in England will now be deemed as potential organ donors after they die — unless they record a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded categories — came into force on Wednesday 20th May….