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Help someone make decisions if they appoint you or if they lack mental capacity - includes using a power of attorney, becoming a deputy and getting a one-off Court of Protection ruling

• When you can make decisions for someone

  Someone can choose you to make and carry out certain decisions on their…

• How to make decisions

  As someone’s attorney or deputy you must: give them all the help they need…

• Checking mental capacity

  A person may not have mental capacity because of a problem with the way…

Legal rules for trustees when deciding whether to accept, refuse or return a donation.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

How to create a model of how your digital health product works and choose measures for your evaluation.

• Updated: 6 July 2020

Sets out process and expectations on planning performance and decision making.

• Updated: 6 December 2023

Check you can get a divorce, agree or disagree with a divorce application, what to do if your husband or wife lacks mental capacity.

Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.

• Updated: 1 November 2019

How to apply to appoint your own staff as delegated driving examiners to provide driving tests for your employees of your company, police service or fire and rescue service

Find out about making valid trustee decisions that are in your charity’s best interests.

• Updated: 2 November 2020

The rules for charities that want to support, or oppose, a change in government policy or the law.

• Updated: 12 October 2022

If you are found guilty of a crime, your sentence will depend on a number of factors, including the type, seriousness and circumstances of the crime.