Sentences with phrase «solicitor follows the golden rule»

Will preparation is a competitive business and a solicitor refusing to prepare a will for a client whose capacity he questions knows that the client could seek advice elsewhere from someone else less scrupulous perhaps s. Even where a solicitor follows the golden rule and suggests that their client should have his capacity assessed, a testator may (understandably) resent having to take a test.

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Getting solicitors to follow the golden rule must be the key, but for the reasons set out above this can be treated more like an exception than a rule.

Perhaps a stronger sanction, or any sanction at all, against those solicitors w ho fail to follow the golden rule in the most obvious cases, might result in fewer cases getting to court.