Page 64 • The HERALD • 20th June 2024 v GET MOVING WITH THE HERALD v ASK A PROFESSIONAL Call our Waterside Team For a free initial meeting on Lasting Powers of Attorney, Wills and Probate Jasper Vincent Solicitors Unit 1 Chevron Business Park Lime Kiln Lane Holbury Southampton SO45 2QL Tel: 023 8089 0919 e: waterside@jaspervincent.com www.jaspervincent.com Out of hours appointments are available on request Lasting Powers of Attorney - Significant Changes on the Horizon Advice from Jasper Vincent With the announcement of the general election, news about a soon-to-bechanging law has been receiving less coverage than it perhaps should. Many people aren’t aware that a signi cant ra of changes will soon be upon us a ecting Lasting Powers of Attorney (“LPAs”). e new law has achieved cross-party support from politicians, so the changes forecast for the end of 2024 should be coming whoever might next be in power. e general aim of the new law will be to modernise our current system of registering LPAs. It has four major goals: 1. Allowing LPAs to be prepared more online than before; 2. Safeguarding better against potential fraud and abuse; 3. Limiting who can actually register LPAs; 4. Allowing more people chance to object to registering LPAs. By making the registration process more computerised, the government believes it will become faster, more user friendly and more streamlined when it comes to identity checking those involved to prevent fraud. We are told that the veri cation checks made using the future online system will be “robust”. As for the latter two goals, these will make for interesting changes to the law. Previously LPAs could be registered by either the “donors” (the people giving the powers to others) or their attorneys. Soon, only the donors will be allowed to register new LPAs. is may create problems for people who have made LPAs in the past, but who have sat on the paperwork and then lost their capacity. As for challenging the registration of LPAs, widening the pool of people who can challenge seems on the face of it to be a positive change. If there are genuine concerns about a vulnerable person appointing someone, then it is morally right to challenge an LPA. However, for families with long-running disputes, spiteful challenges may well slow down otherwise normal applications. Practitioners seem to think these changes will be a mixed bag. If you would like to make Lasting Powers of Attorney, come and talk to one of our solicitors at Jasper Vincent. We will help you through the process and ensure the documents are correctly prepared. NFBP Business Support Programme New Forest Business Partnership (NFBP) have a really useful programme of business support and networking events, open to everybody and aimed at providing training for local businesses across a variety of essential skills. e programme includes a mix of both online and in person events - and many of them are free of charge. For the Business Support Hours you do need to book by 3pm on the day. You will then receive an email before the meeting starts with the Zoom meeting ID and password to enable you to join the meeting online. e next events are: Tuesday 25th June – 9.30am-1pm – Marketing Masterclass ey have a double feature on Canva for this month’s Marketing Masterclass with Rebecca Wade from Purple Dog. Session 1 is on getting started with the free version of Canva. Session 2 dives deeper into creating your content using the Pro features of Canva. You can book for one session for both. Great marketing and social media content can help your business grow, but without the right tools, it takes time and e ort to produce. With Canva, you can speed up the design process with simple content creation tools helping your business create great content in seconds. £19 per session (2 sessions). Book at: www.nfbp.org.uk/event/social-mediaupdate-on-canva/ Wednesday 26th June - 4pm-5pm – New Forest Business Support Hour A weekly informal one hour networking meeting – an opportunity to update each other on how your businesses are progressing, to meet new people and to ask each other questions in a relaxed setting. Free. Book at: www.n p.org.uk/event/ new-forest-business-support-hour-144/ Thursday 27th June - 8am-9.30am – Networking Breakfast Join them to enjoy a special Networking Breakfast in style at the Royal Lymington Yacht Club. A morning spent at this stunning venue is the perfect way to start your day: networking with local businesses on the sun terrace overlooking the river. is event takes place immediately before the New Forest Business Regatta, which starts at 0930, but you can book separately just for the networking breakfast. Tickets £15. Book at: www.n p.org.uk/ event/networking-breakfast/ Wednesday 3rd July - 4pm-5pm – New Forest Business Support Hour A weekly informal one hour networking meeting – an opportunity to update each other on how your businesses are progressing, to meet new people and to ask each other questions in a relaxed setting. Free. Book at: www.n p.org.uk/event/ new-forest-business-support-hour-145/ Tuesday 9th July – 5pm-7pm - LinkedIn Local New Forest Gathering Continued on page 65
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