legal professionals
Solicitors and Legal Teams
Your role in supporting the injured person
You have assessed the injured person’s rehabilitation needs and addressed what is required so they make as good a recovery as possible. You have looked at every aspect of the person’s physical, intellectual and emotional wellbeing. You need to make sure the right accommodation, adaptations, aids and equipment are in place and recommend the specialist therapists and other healthcare professionals required for the client.
Our role in supporting you
FOX & FOX will incorporate the agreed, bespoke care plan into the adapted design and layout and integrate the bespoke specialist equipment into the building, enabling the care plan to be delivered in the most efficient and comfortable way. You can rely on us to be a trusted part of the team.
How we support you
When sourcing properties we ensure any potential house can be made fit for purpose and is suitable for adaptation.
- We collaborate with you, the wider care team and multiple professionals to find design solutions
- We listen to the Case Manager and the Healthcare Professionals you appoint to understand how the clinical needs of the client can be best be integrated into the design
- We listen to the client and other stakeholders when designing the home and feedback requirements to the care team
- We understand the clients needs through our long experience and use this to help shape how this care regime could be implemented
- More than often than not, we ‘drive’ the design to ensure all the above can be accommodated
Legal professionals
Court of Protection & Deputies
CoPs role in supporting the injured person
The Court of Protection (CoP) makes decisions about financial and welfare matters for people who lack the mental capacity to make those decisions for themselves at the time they need to be made.
CoPs responsibilities
They are responsible for:
- Deciding whether someone has the mental capacity to make a particular decision for themselves
- Appointing Deputies to make ongoing decisions for people who lack mental capacity
- Giving people permission to make one-off decisions on behalf of someone who lacks mental capacity
- Handling urgent or emergency applications where a decision must be made on behalf of someone without delay
- Making decisions about a Lasting Power of Attorney or Enduring Power of Attorney and considering any objections to their registration
- Considering applications to make statutory wills or gifts
- Making decisions about whether, and in what circumstances, a person may be lawfully deprived of their liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
A Deputies role in supporting the injured person
Deputies can apply to become someone’s deputy if they ‘lack mental capacity’. This means they cannot make a decision for themselves at the time it needs to be made. They may still be able to make decisions for themselves at certain times.
People may lack mental capacity because, for example:
- They have had a serious brain injury or illness
- They have dementia
- They have severe learning disabilities
A Deputy is authorised by the Court of Protection to make decisions for them.
There are 2 types of Deputy.
PROPERTY AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS DEPUTY
Deputies can pay the person’s bills or organise their pension, for example.
PERSONAL WELFARE DEPUTY
Deputies can make decisions about medical treatment and how someone is looked after.
Our role in supporting you
FOX & FOX can manage the accommodation search and property adapting issues facing your clients. We provide a ‘turnkey’ service on property search, design and adaptation. We submit the required reports to present to the Court at various stage of the process. We manage the costs and budget throughout the process by organising construction professionals who have been subject to due diligence.
How we support you
Turnkey operation.
- Understanding the needs of the ‘injured person’ is paramount to sourcing the most appropriate property
- We research the current property market to see what level of funding could be required for your clients to help quantify the case
- Sourcing rental property which can be adapted to provide short term accommodation
- Finding properties that can be adapted to provide lifetime accessible family homes
- Our design skills and understanding of property and the market can open up unlikely properties and make them suitable
- Accountability is important with all the services under one roof giving one point of contact for the professional design & construction element
- Providing property suitability reports: a structured assessment that evaluates how well a particular property meets identified requirements, and where it falls short
- The fluctuating property market can present financial constraints on clients. We can support the legal team if the need arises to go back to the Court for additional funding
- We review the budget throughout the process to ensure it stays on track and raise any issues early
- We manage client expectations so they are realistic about what they can be provided with within budget
- Find contractors and perform due diligence and engage construction professionals required for the project
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