Elderly Client Update
Contents
- Data and confidentiality: The SRA and GDPR
- Wills and current guidance on Larke v Nugus requests
- Capacity case law update
- News from the Court of Protection and the OPG
Learning Objectives
Following this session, delegates will:
- Better understand how to work within the new GDPR and data protection landscape
- Familiarise themselves with the updated guidance on Larke v Nugus requests
- Consider developments in relation to fluctuating capacity and testamentary capacity
Speaker
SHEREE GREEN
Sheree Green TEP is the Chair of the Law Society Committee on Mental Health and Disability, and member of the Court of Protection ad hoc Rules Committee. Director at Greenchurch Legal Services, Sheree is an independent panel deputy, with particular expertise in representing individuals with both mental health and mental capacity difficulties. Sheree is an experienced speaker and has delivered seminars to a wide range of audiences, including local authority teams, solicitors, the medical profession, police & CPS, carers, charitable organisations and social care providers. Sheree has also written chapters for the Law Society publications “The Assessment of Mental Capacity” and “The Elderly Client Handbook”, together with articles for the Journal of Adult Safeguarding and the Elder Law Journal.
