Coldrick on Personal Injury Trusts 4th ed

This book should enable personal injury lawyers to use their recovered damages effectively, to protect their clients against assessments of their capital and to take full advantage of the various kinds of state benefits (which are subject to capital assessments) where the state provides such benefits.

The fourth edition has been fully updated to include:-

• The significant changes by the mental capacity act 2005 which came into force fully on 1st October 2007;
• A revised and expanded property section with specific focus on purchasing property where there is a P I Trust in place or where the Court of Protection are involved;
• 2008 changes to the care rules and Employment and Support Allowance, which has replaced Incapacity Benefit for new claimants;
• Plus, new and up-to-date precedents on CD-ROM