Weightmans have acted in a large number of Court of Protection applications on behalf of the Council due to capacity issues within the in-house legal team. The various matters concern section 21A challenges, health and welfare applications relating to care, residence and contact and applications concerning property and financial affairs.
We are finding ourselves dealing with multiple cases on behalf of more and more local authorities for whom the market continues to be increasingly difficult with ever increasing workloads and shortage of appropriately qualified lawyers.