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General Guide for the Donor
The Donor is the person who appoints someone to act under the Power of Attorney (POA). This article is a general guide...
Get digital: Powers of Attorney Act 2023 gets the green light
Today the new Powers of Attorney Act 2023 received Royal Assent. This will create new safeguards to protect against fraud and abuse and digitalisation will improve processing time and reduce human error. The Powers of Attorney Act fires the starting gun on bringing...
OPG Campaign: Your voice. Your decision.
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) has launched a campaign to highlight the need to register a power of attorney. The "Your voice. Your decision." campaign has real time stories of donor's and attorney's so you can hear people talk about their experience of LPAs....
LPA digital service: preferences and instructions
The OPG has recently updated the LPA digital service to include 'preferences and instructions'. The OPG has made great strides in digitising the process especially with the Use the LPA service but, this update is crucial for the attorney. It will hopefully make the...
Questions for the Donor: What should they be asking?
Questions for the donor, what should the donor be asking when including preferences and instructions in their Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)? Giving an attorney the authority to make decisions on your behalf is an onerous position. When you are giving that...
Stopping the attorney abusing their powers
This is the first of a two-part series, looking at stopping the attorney from abusing their powers. Read the second part here which looks at how the attorney can be helped if things go wrong. Who watches the watchmen? Who guards the guards? Who stops a attorney...
Who protects the attorney?
The pressure of overseeing someone else’s finance and health decisions can be huge.
Time bandits: 20-week delay at the OPG
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) says it currently has a 20 week delay for processing requests. It is apparently working hard to continue to deliver its services on time but, in the meantime, has some useful tools so you can get it right first time. The OPG...
All change? Digitising the Lasting Power of Attorney
In July 2021, the government published a public consultation entitled ‘Modernising Lasting Powers of Attorney’. The government then responded to the consultation in 2022, on digitising the Lasting Power of Attorney. Alex Chalke MP, the minister responsible for the...
Four out of five adults have no Power of Attorney
According to a survey by Canada Life, four out of five adults in the UK don't have a Power of Attorney and registrations have dropped by 26.5 per cent. With the Government set to modernise the Lasting Power of Attorney, it's time that adults with no Power of Attorney...
Mental Capacity Act: 5 key principles
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) covers people in England and Wales who lack the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care and treatment. The Mental Capacity Act's five principles give guidance to the Attorney or any other relevant third party...
