We know it is difficult to secure a welfare deputyship appointment. The numbers tell the story. In the first quarter of 2021, 2582 property and affairs deputyship orders were made (and 2986 applied for), and just 99 welfare deputyship orders were made (and 241 applied for). A recent case …
Mental Health Awareness week
To mark the annual Mental Health Awareness week in May 2021, our Director Sheree Green took part in a Law Society education podcast with Jennifer Nwachukwu, reflecting on developments in mental health law and some of the changes they would like to see introduced in a new and updated mental health …
Greenchurch launches new YouTube channel “Law Unpacked” for families which include a disabled person
Making decisions can be challenging. If you have a learning disability, a brain injury, some decisions can be harder still. Law unpacked helps you understand how to use the law, particularly the Mental Capacity Act 2005, to support people to make their own decisions. Or to help them choose and …
