Course content

It is an inevitable fact of legal practice that all practitioners will come across adults at risk of harm. This can create practical professional and ethical tension and can at times be difficult to navigate. 

This Masterclass will cover:
• What do we mean by 'safeguarding'
• Who are vulnerable adults?
• How to recognise abuse and neglect
• Understanding how public safeguarding policies work in practice
• When can your professional duty of confidentiality be overridden?
• Safeguarding bodies and their remit
• Responding to financial abuse
• Responding to situations of neglect
• The importance of having a safeguarding policy within your practice

About Lifetime Lawyers masterclasses

A leading expert will talk to you for about 30 minutes and then there will be an open session for questions and issues where you can put the expert on the spot and get to the bottom of your issues.

A week after the session, you will be sent a top 10 practical tips that you can use in your day to day practice.

About the speaker

Caroline Bielanska TEP, Independent Consultant Solicitor provides support and advice for law firms, to troubleshoot in complex cases involving vulnerable clients, where the interplay between their capacity, care and finance arrangements, care funding, safeguarding and disputes may arise. Caroline is author of numerous leading text books on advising the older client and capacity, including Cretney & Lush on Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney (Lexis Nexis), The Practitioners Guide to Court of Protection Practice (Bloomsbury), The Elderly Client Handbook (The Law Society) and Elderly Clients- A Precedent Manual (Jordans). She sits on the Law Society’s Mental Health & Disability Committee and the Court of Protection’s Rules Review Committee.

Caroline won the Trusted Advisor of the Year 2017 and the Vulnerable Client Practice Award 2017 in STEP’s Private Client Awards. She was a finalist in 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 in the Vulnerable Client Practice Award category.