Your challenges
Making decisions for people who lack capacity can be complex and involve difficult family and social dynamics. It also raises difficult questions in relation to a patient’s ability to input into decision making.
Achieving your ambitions
You want to ensure that best practice is achieved. This means thinking outside of the box and ensuring that service delivery is provided to patients who lack capacity in a way that ensures your statutory duties to them are met. We have extensive experience helping clients with key issues in relation to best interests decisions.
We work with you as an effective partner in ensuring that appropriate agencies/decision makers are incorporated into discussions and action plans in order to provide a timely resolution to matters. We have extensive experience in representing NHS organisations in the Court of Protection and High Court.
Should you require training on the Mental Capacity Act 2005, do get in touch.
The strength you need
The team has a range of partners, associates, consultants and solicitors all specialising in:
- Consent
- Serious medical treatment and general care decisions
- Deprivation of liberty
- Lasting powers of attorney
- Court deputies
- Advance decisions
- Independent mental capacity advocates
- Community care and accommodation
- Mental Capacity Act 2005/Mental Health Act 1983 interface
- The inherent jurisdiction
- Family Division matters including Children Act 1989 applications
- NHS commissioning and its interface with best interests decision making
We have a broad range of experience in private practice, local and central government, including Cafcass Legal.
Lawyers you can trust
Decision making in this field requires sensitivity and a sound knowledge of inter-agency working. We are committed to working to your timescales, including outside of office hours, in order to ensure that matters are resolved satisfactorily, in patients' best interests.
Our clients have said that:
- We "provide high levels of responsiveness and quick turnaround times”
- We “combine a personalised service with a great depth of resources”
- Our "response times are remarkable and the acumen and knowledge excellent"
- “Good oral advice, always backed up with clear written advice” (Chambers & Partners 2011)
- We have “friendly approachable lawyers who are committed to building strong relationships based on a consistent team built around the client” (Chambers & Partners 2011)