Wednesday, 5 November

Lawyers for Children: Assessing Capacity and Obtaining Views & Instructions

Webinar by Stephanie Miller, Solicitor at the Civil Legal Assistance Office

By Legal Services Agency Ltd

Date and time

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event.

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

CPD 1.5 hours

PEAT Outcome - Relevant legal knowledge

OBJECTIVES

This webinar will provide essential guidance on how to assess a child's capacity to instruct a solicitor, in line with legal and ethical obligations, and offer tips on how to effectively obtain and understand a child's views and instructions.

DELEGATES

This Zoom webinar will be of interest to trainee solicitors, newly qualified solicitors, and anyone seeking a comprehensive refresher on key legal topics.

SPEAKER

Stephanie Miller, Solicitor, CLAO

The Civil Legal Assistance Office "CLAO" is a network of four offices in Scotland that helps people with specific civil legal problems. The offices cover Edinburgh and Lothian, Highlands and Islands, Argyll and Bute, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Stephanie Miller has been a solicitor for 20 years, specialising in child protection law. In addition, she has also been a Safeguarder for 17 years and a Child Welfare Reporter for 5 years. Stephanie was also the legal counsel for life long links. Along the way Stephanie has been a foster carer, contact supervisor and she provides training to new safeguarders, panel members and the training academy. Stephanie has a very strong passion for child law, shge is based in the Aberdeen office of CLAO, and her current aim is to provide access to legal advice and representation to children in the North East of Scotland.

Organised by

Legal Services Agency Ltd

LSA's seminars, conferences and workshops are among the most innovative, best value and, above all, useful available. They cover most areas of law in practice. They are relevant to everybody concerned with law and legal rights. This includes practitioners, whether qualified or not, solicitors or advocates, paid or unpaid and anyone in the private, community, charitable or statutory sectors. The events are also of interest to policy makers, managers, campaigners and students. The events reflect LSA's values of inclusiveness and respect for fundamental rights. They come out of our extensive casework tackling unmet legal needs in all relevant courts and tribunals. LSA has a record of attracting the best speakers and delegates who are at the cutting edge of the law. The result is often sparky and thought provoking discussion.

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£49.46

Nov 5 · 06:00 PST