Re PC; Public Guardian v AC & JC [2014] EWCOP 41

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | April 2015 #148

PC was born in 1936. She suffered from vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In June 2009, she had executed an LPA for property and affairs, appointing her sons, AC and JC, as her attorneys jointly and severally. The LPA was registered on 12 August 2009. In June 2013, an application to the Court of Protection was made by the Public Guardian (OPG) for an order revoking the LPA, and directing them to account to the OPG for their dealings under the LPA. The OPG had been informed that the attorneys had not been paying their mother’s care fees and that arrears had accumulated...

Re AB (Revocation of Enduring Power of Attorney) [2014] EWCOP 12

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | October 2014 #143

AB was born in 1932, resides in a care home and has dementia. In June 2007 she signed an EPA appointing her nephews MD and WD to be her attorneys on a joint and several basis. In September 2007 the EPA was registered.

In March 2007 MD and WD bought a property for AB to live in. They charged her rent for the six months that she lived there and she also paid the refurbishment costs of the work carried out by MD.

In January 2013 Brent Council wrote to the OPG expressing concerns about arrears of £23,000 in care home fees.

An investigation by the OPG showed that in Fe...