Course description
When dealing with vulnerable clients in personal injury law, there are an array of issues that may arise that you may not be aware of.
Louise Taylor and Laura Hanvey, associates at Pennington Manches Cooper, present this concise and informative webinar which will provide you with practical tips for dealing with vulnerable clients, using examples of how extremely difficult cases have been managed, how you can protect yourselves and how you can do the best job for your clients whilst maximising costs.
It will cover what makes a client vulnerable, the categories of vulnerability, the specific issues for vulnerable clients, costs recovery and much more.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
This webinar focuses on practical tips and some common themes when dealing with vulnerable clients. It will look at case examples of how extremely difficult cases have been managed, how you can protect yourselves and how you can do the best job for your clients whilst maximising costs.
This webinar will provide practical tips from experience of dealing with myriad vulnerable clients, such as attempted suicide, isolation and oscillating capacity as well as other issues.
This webinar is aimed at personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- Dissecting vulnerability
- What makes a client vulnerable
- Categories of vulnerability
- All clients?
- Protected parties
- Elderly claimants
- Psychiatric injured clients
- Specific issues for vulnerable clients
- Capacity assessments
- Age/life expectancy
- Anonymity
- Suicide risk
- Giving evidence
- Stereotypes
- Case examples
- Costs recovery
- Proportionality
- Attendance notes
- Concluding thoughts
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