Wedlake Bell

This Checklist sets out practical points for practitioners to consider and work through when taking instructions and advising a client on making an advance decision, sometimes formerly referred to as a living Will. Points covered include capacity to make an advance decision, potential conflict between the advance decision and any health and welfare LPA made by the client, liaising with medical professionals, drafting the advance decision, signing and storing the advance decision and informing relevant people.

This Checklist and timeline, produced in partnership with Frances Coulson of Wedlake Bell, summarises the process for making annulment applications on the ground that the bankruptcy order ought not to have been made under section 282(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986.

This Checklist and timeline, produced in partnership with Frances Coulson of Wedlake Bell, summarises the process for making annulment applications under section 282(1)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986 where there is a payment in full of the costs, expenses and claims in the bankruptcy estate.