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Regional Group Meeting - Thursday 19 May 2005

SOLICITORS FOR THE ELDERLY SOUTH WALES REGIONAL GROUP

ENDURING POWERS OF ATTORNEY

and

CONSENT TO/REFUSAL OF TREATMENT AND ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

3 CPD POINTS

Thursday 19th May, 2.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.

Buffet and social following the presentation

Registration 1.45 p.m.

The Holiday Inn, Castle Street, Cardiff CF10 (Telephone: 029 20347250)

ENDURING POWERS OF ATTORNEY

· What do you tell your clients now that the Mental Capacity Bill has received the Royal Assent?

· How will Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) differ from EPAs?

· What do you do to ensure the protection of your client’s EPA?

· What do you do when the attorneys want to see the donor’s will once the donor has lost capacity?

· What systems do you have in place to avoid failure on registration because of an administrative error made by your firm?

Practical documents will include:

· Check list

· Questions commonly asked by clients, with answers

· Consent forms

· Sample letter to a Doctor

· Checklist to send to Attorneys with EPA for them to sign

· Sample letter to attorneys

· Statement to place with EPAs in strong-room

· Immediate authority to use EPAs

CONSENT TO/REFUSAL OF TREATMENT AND ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

· Who can consent to, or refuse treatment for someone else?

· How will this change with the new Mental Capacity Act?

· What capacity is required validly to consent to, or refuse treatment?

· Advance Directives – How much notice must doctors presently take of these?

· What changes are there after the Leslie Burke case?

· Is artificial feeding ‘treatment’? What do you tell your clients?

Speaker: Mrs Liz Holdsworth, a Consultant solicitor with Wace Morgan,Shrewsbury.

She specialises in areas of law affecting the elderly, including the funding of long term care and medico legal issues.

She is on the National Executive of Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) as Head of Regional groups and is the Regional Co-ordinator for the Shropshire group of SFE.