Client Capacity

Client Capacity – Statement of Principles with Guidelines
Adopted by Council on 25 April 2012 and amended May 2021

Testamentary Capacity - Ethics Guidelines
Adopted by Council on 6 November 2017.

Resources 

Assessing a client's capacity to make a will: A lawyer's obligations - The Bulletin, December 2017

Letter to the Editor - The Bulletin, December 2015 

Lawyers' doubts about client capacity - The Bulletin, June 2014

Does your Client Have the Capacity to Instruct You? - Risk Watch article, March 2010