by Michael Perkins | Nov 20, 2021 | Elder abuse
In our experience, the mitigation of abusive conduct needs us, as a community, to move from passive Coping to active Caring at an earlier stage of the ageing of a person than is usually the case. It is not the role of the law to prevent abusive or coercive conduct....
by Michael Perkins | Jul 17, 2021 | Education & Training, Employment, Private Client Services
Should lawyers, financial planners and accountants simply do what clients say? In a recent Capacity & Capability Awareness Workshop delivered to a group of CPAs, Michael Perkins was asked, “Is it not our job to do what our client tells us?”. Michael’s answer...
by Michael Perkins | Apr 26, 2021 | Autonomy Evaluation, Contract, Legal, Medico-legal, Wills
Autonomy First Lawyers assisted a fellow experienced solicitor, a partner in a Sydney-based commercial law firm that also supports clients with Wills, Succession and Advice legal services. The solicitor attended by Zoom a talk being given by Michael Perkins and Dr...
by Dr Jane Lonie | Feb 15, 2021 | Autonomy Evaluation, Medico-legal
Although the law treats the concepts of legal capacity and undue influence as separate entities, insofar as undue influence presupposes that the individual had capacity, in reality the two rarely operate in isolation. That is to say, whilst the law requires that...
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