Guidance now applies whenever client or prospective client lacks full capacity
15th December 2014
The guidance for solicitors in relation to vulnerable clients has been updated to include a focus on issues relating to young people.
It applies whenever a client or prospective client lacks full capacity, whether they have reached the legal age of capacity or not.
The original guidance in relation to vulnerable clients and also continuing and welfare powers of attorney was issued by the Society in 2013.
Further information on this subject is available in the December professional practice update on the Society’s website.
In this issue
- Factors in the balance
- Balancing the right to decide
- Life yet in oil and gas
- Commercial awareness begins at trainee stage
- Relocation and the finances of contact
- Reading for pleasure
- Opinion: Archie Maciver
- Book reviews
- Profile
- President's column
- Up and running at last
- People on the move
- With this Act, I thee wed
- Tax: a mission to inform
- For better, for worse
- Filling the Bournewood gap
- Power talking
- For whose aid?
- Balanced view
- A laughing matter?
- Directors: how much is too much, or not enough?
- Credit where it's due?
- New age, new image, new media, continuing problems?
- Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal
- Lawyers as leaders
- Property Law Committee update
- Property Standardisation Group update
- Over the finishing line – 2
- Not proven no more?
- Vulnerable clients guidance now extended to the young
- From the Brussels office
- Take it to the schools
- A future – a vision
- Ask Ash
- A strategy with legs?
- Who's got what it takes?
- I can act, but should I?
- Prominence unplanned
