POWER OF ATTORNEY SOLICITORS, LONDON WC1 (serving W1, SW1 and WC2) AND NORTH FINCHLEY LONDON N12, in West End, Wiltshire

. SIMONS RODKIN LITIGATION SOLICITORS POWERS OF ATTORNEY Telephone Numbers (Central London Office) (North London, Finchley Office) We are an experienced firm of solicitors located in Bloomsbury, London WC1 (and also close to W1, SW1, NW1, and WC2) and in Finchley, North London N12. Immediate adjoining areas to our offices which we serve (public parking is absolutely no problem near to our Finchley Office office), include,;- Central London Office. Covent Garden (WC2), Bloomsbury and Russell Square (WC1). Holborn (WC1, EC1, and WC2), Farringdon (EC1.),Clerkenwell (EC1), Islington (N1 and N7), Hoxton (N1), Barbican (EC2 ), Camden (NW1), Finsbury (EC1). Lincoln’s Inn (WC2), Gray’s Inn (WC1), Kings Cross (NC1) and the City of London (EC2, EC3 and EC4), West End, Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, Bond Street, Marble Arch, Fitzrovia, Soho (W1), Great Portland Street, Baker Street, Marylebone, Euston, Kings Cross, Regents Park (NW1), Piccadilly, Mayfair, St James’s, Westminster, and Pimlico (SW1), Bayswater, Edgware Road, Paddington, Bayswater and Hyde Park (W2) Camden Town, Somers Town, Primrose Hill, Belsize Park and Swiss Cottage (NW1 and NW3) Finchley Office. Finchley Central (N3), New Southgate (N11), Southgate (N14), Woodside Park (N12), Torrington Park (N12), Whetstone (N20), Hendon (NW4), Totteridge (N20), High Barnet (EN5), East Barnet (EN4), Friern Barnet (N11), Golders Green (NW11), Temple Fortune (NW11), Mill Hill (NW7), Muswell Hill (N11), Highgate (N6), Crouch End (N8) Hampstead Garden Suburb and East Finchley (N2), Hampstead (NW3), Palmers Green (N13), Borehamwood and Elstree (WD6), and West Hamstead, Kilburn, Queens Park and Finchley Road (NW6) Lasting Powers of Attorney A need-to-know guide from Simons Rodkin Litigation Solicitors A Lasting Power of Attorney is a legal document which allows one person (called the donor) to choose another person or persons (called the attorney(s)) and gives that person or persons power to make decisions on behalf of the donor including when the donor does not have the mental capacity to make the decision himself or herself. These powers given to the attorney(s) can be particularly useful if a person becomes unwell and is unable to manage physically or mentally his or her own affairs. An LPA is a document which is completed and signed by the donor while the donor still has mental capacity and therefore takes effect during the donor s lifetime. This is completely different to a will which takes effect only on the testator’s death. Unlike an ordinary power of attorney an LPA can continue even if the donor loses mental capacity. There are two types of Lasting Powers of Attorney. They are as follows; (1) A Lasting Power of Attorney for Property and financial affairs. This type of Lasting Power of Attorney gives the attorney power to manage property and financial affairs for the donor. This means that acting under such a power, the Attorney can for example pay the donors bills, collect income deal with benefit payments and even deal with the sale of the donor’s house. Under this type of Lasting Power of Attorney your Attorney(s) can make decisions for you, as soon as the Lasting Power of Attorney is registered, whether or not you lack mental capacity unless you put a restriction in it. (2) A Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare. This type of Lasting Power of Attorney allows the Attorney(s) to take decisions which concern the donors personal welfare, for example whether to give or refuse consent to particular types of health care including decisions in connection with medical treatment, and also decisions as to whether donor should reside in their own home w