Vulnerable Clients - Common Themes & Practical Tips for Personal Injury Practitioners

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

This webinar was recorded on 5th October 2022