SIG Spotlight Week Webinar: Financial Abuse Re-visited and Deprivation of Liberty Issues post-COVID-19 2020 | STEP – Advising Families Across Generations | 4 December 2020 | Virtual Event

What should practitioners do when faced with this issue? How far should you delve?

This session will explore real-life case examples and evidence of Deprivations of Liberty and the harm and fallout from that. Speakers will highlight the “warning bells” and signs to look out for as best-practice; especially pertinent now as the financial strains and hardship sustained by relatives and others as a result of COVID-19 emerge, coupled with global economic downturn.

Attendees will be equipped with:
• best-practice guidelines and signposting to appropriate jurisdictional agencies in order to safeguard clients and to protect oneself from liability;
• reference and awareness-raising of the latest products to the insurance market which seek to cover Attorneys under a specialist insurance bond;
• an awareness of enhanced risks in this area post-COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant significant worldwide financial downturn in most jurisdictions;
• cognisance to the necessary and urgent revisions and heightened awareness of the refinements that need to be made to ensure continued best-practice in these areas in the best interests of both clients and professional practice.

2020 Speakers

MODERATOR:

Mark Dunkley TEP
Consultant, Shakespeare Martineau LLP, United Kingdom

SPEAKERS:

Daniel Bradbury
Senior Lawyer-Legal and Information Directorate, Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), United Kingdom

Paul Greenwood
UK Solicitor and Deputy District Attorney San Diego (retired), USA

Adrian Ward MBE
Scottish and International Expert-Adult Incapacity, Consultant Solicitor, Author, and Convenor- Mental Health and Disability Sub-Committee, Law Society of Scotland, United Kingdom