‘Power of attorney should be granted online, City watchdogs have suggested, as lawyers warn the move would put the elderly at risk of fraud.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A north-west firm is considering appealing a Court of Protection ruling in which it was removed as a financial deputy in a case concerning deprivation of liberty and care arrangements.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th August 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A retired company director has paid £4,500 in costs after being reprimanded by a judge for vandalising his own mother’s gravestone with a hammer.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th June 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The woman, who is in her late 70s, underwent a frontal leucotomy in 1962 to cut nerve fibres in the brain.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘This Court of Protection case has, unusually, made the papers, and when you read the details you won’t be surprised. What the judge described as a “callous and calculating” son charged his widowed mother, who suffered from dementia, more than £117 000 for “out of pocket expenses” visiting her in her nursing home. He had been in charge of her expenses since 2004 when Sheila (the mother) had been admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983. But alarm bells only went off after her unpaid nursing bills reached nearly £30 000. The Public Guardian launched an enquiry that led to this hearing of an application for the court to revoke the son’s (Martin’s) Enduring Power of Attorney (‘EPA’) and to direct him to cancel its registration. The Public Guardian also applied to freeze Sheila’s bank account.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th October 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The village solicitor raided the accounts of 13 clients aged between 67 and 100 and spent the money on ‘pens, pottery, pornography and prostitutes’.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st June 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘When a person goes missing, there is currently no legal mechanism for another person to manage his or her affairs during his or her absence. This can lead to the dissipation of the missing person’s assets (for example, through uncancellable Direct Debits) and the deterioration or loss of assets (for example, through lack of maintenance or failure to meet financial obligations, such as mortgage payments).’
Ministry of Justice, 27th August 2014
Source: www.consult.justice.gov.uk
‘Campaign by Claudia Lawrence’s father Peter leads to proposals to give relatives of missing loved ones power over their financial affairs.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th August 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Lasting powers of attorney will be easier and simpler for people to make, Justice Minister Simon Hughes announces.’
Ministry of Justice, 21st August 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘Rules granting other people control over your money when you are elderly or infirm are open to abuse. We highlight one sobering case.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A handyman who took hundreds of thousands of pounds from a wealthy widow with dementia after gaining power of attorney must not be named, a court rules.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A will writer who stole more than £280,000 from clients over nearly three years has been found guilty of fraud.’
BBC News, 4th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Our consultation paper ‘Transforming the Services of the Office of the Public Guardian’, published on 27 July 2012, invited comments on a range of issues related to the Office of the Public Guardian’s (OPG) aspiration to deliver its services digitally by default. In our response, published in January 2013, we set out the changes that we would complete by April 2013. This included reducing the statutory waiting period for registering a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) form from six weeks to four weeks and amending the regulations to allow court appointed deputies to change bond provider without the need to apply to the Court of Protection. However, other changes required further policy development or were dependant on the OPG replacement IT system being in place in 2014.”
Ministry of Justice, 15th October 2013
Source: www.consult.justice.gov.uk
“A wider range of people should ensure they have lasting powers of attorney (LPAs) – not just the elderly – Justice Minister Lord McNally said today.”
Ministry of Justice, 15th October 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“Anyone applying for a lasting power of attorney (LPA) to choose someone they trust to make decisions for them if they lose mental capacity will be helped by a 15 per cent cut in the application fee announced by Justice Minister Helen Grant.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“Thousands of people will be helped by a new online system which will make it simpler, clearer and faster to apply for Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA).”
Ministry of Justice, 2nd July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“Section 7(1)(c) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985 did not have the effect of preventing a person who was the attorney under a registered enduring power of attorney from benefiting himself out of the donor’s money in a manner not authorised by the enduring power of attorney without the approval of the court, provided that he was acting in a different capacity (such as that of an authorised signatory to a bank account in the donor’s name), and the donor retained sufficient mental capacity to consent to such an act and gave full, free and informed consent to its being done.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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