Today, Your Legal Corner provides an overview regarding mental capacity assessment. How actions are perceived by others is worth reviewing. If I run to the hair salon in yesterday’s clothes without ...

Social workers need to work harder to enable service users to make decisions for themselves, says independent mental capacity advocate and consultant Natalie Saunders. (Image: Purestock/Getty Images) ...

When assessing mental capacity it is important that we don't set our expectations about the required level of understanding too high. Various judgements from the Court of Protection have made it very ...

Within the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental capacity means the ability to make a decision. A person's capacity to make a decision can be affected by a range of factors such as a stroke, ...

A relationship with a client can change dramatically when the client starts showing signs of mental incapacity and the person with power of attorney wants to step in. Defining when your client has ...