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What Does the Court of Protection Do?
- 06.03.2023
- EmmaArnold
- Court-of-Protection
What does the Court of Protection do? Learn more from Potter Rees Dolan about what a Court of Protection Deputy is and when you should speak to a solicitor.
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"It's a Family Affair: So Why Are We Only Helping One Person?"
- 28.09.2022
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
We would like to thank everyone who attended our recent training seminar entitled ‘It’s a Family Affair: So Why Are We Only Helping One Person?'
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Is it lawful for carers and others working with someone with a “mental impairment” to help them to access and pay for sex?
- 27.10.2021
- EmmaArnold
- Court-of-Protection, Opinion
Ruth Wright comments on the recent Court of Appeal decision on whether it was lawful for carers of a man with a mental impairment to help him to engage the services of a sex worker.
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Team PRD complete Great Manchester Run for Headway
- 28.09.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
Team PRD are home and dry after a wonderful event at the Great Manchester 10k on Sunday!
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Team PRD to take part in Manchester Legal Walk 2021
- 23.08.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury, Opinion, Media-Coverage
Potter Rees Dolan has put together a team to take on the Manchester Legal Walk 2021 this September! We will be raising funds for the North West Legal Support Trust (the local arm of the Access to Justice Foundation) which funds vital local advice services.
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Team PRD take on Great Run Manchester for local Headway branches
- 29.07.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
We are extremely proud - and excited - to announce that we have put together a team to take on the Great Run - Manchester 10k in September, raising funds for local branches of Headway.
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Sometimes I'm scared of you: Britney’s Conservatorship
- 24.06.2021
- IsobelCairns
- Court-of-Protection
US pop star Britney Spears has addressed a Los Angeles court telling judge that she has been drugged, forced to perform against her will and prevented from having children, as she asked the Court to end a conservatorship that has governed her life for the last 13 years.
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Action for Brain Injury Week 2021
- 17.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
Today marks the start of Headway's Action for Brain Injury Week 2021. This year's campaign theme is "A life of lockdown?" which will focus on social isolation after brain injury - an issue that has been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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#FreeBritney - How do Conservatorships in the US compare with the UK jurisdiction?
- 29.04.2021
- SamanthaSpain
- Court-of-Protection
Following the news that Britney Spears is set to address the Court regarding her conservatorship at a June hearing, Court of Protection solicitor here at PRD, Samantha Spain, discusses in our latest blog how US law appointing conservators compares with UK Legislation.
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