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Mental capacity: Come to an understanding
Zoe Culverwell highlights capacity issues in financial proceedings including capacity to enter into an agreement Lawyers must keep capacity under review throughout the whole retainer as it is not something that can simply be addressed at the outset of the case and then forgotten about. Mental capacity issues are increasingly common in financial remedy proceedings …
Cases Referenced
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- ACC & ors (property and affairs deputy; recovering assets costs for legal proceedings) [2020] EWCOP 9
- Bailey v Warren [2006] EWCA Civ 51
- Dunhill v Burgin [2014] UKSC 18
- MAP v RAP [2013] EWHC 4784 (Fam)
- Masterman-Lister v Brutton & Co [2002] WTLR 259