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Client Care: Clients without capacity – taking instructions
Araba Taylor considers the affairs of the incapacitated in the first of two articles The test of the mental capacity of a litigant either to bring litigation or to commence civil proceedings, without the need for a litigation friend, depends on the specific transaction involved. Clients without capacity present client care issues for all practitioners, …
Cases Referenced
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- Dunhill v Burgin [2011] EWHC 464 (QB); [2012] EWCA Civ 397; [2012] EWHC 3163 (QB); [2014] UKSC 18
- Masterman-Lister v Brutton & Co [2002] EWCA Civ 1889; [2003] WTLR 259
- Re Beaney [1978] 1 WLR 770
- Saulle v Nouvet [2007] EWHC 2902 (QB)
- Thorpe v Fellowes LLP [2011] EWHC 61(QB)