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Mental Health Awareness Week 13-19 May 2019
The Mental Health Foundation are hosting Mental Health Awareness week between 13 – 19 May 2019. The theme this year is body image – how we think and feel about our bodies. Having general concerns about your body image is ...
Read more15.05.2019
Floyd Porter shares his thoughts on mental capacity issues in Law Society blog
Our joint head of the mental health and capacity department, Floyd Porter, was asked to share his thoughts and experience as a mental health lawyer in a recent blog for The Law Society. Floyd is the Chief Assessor of the Law Society Mental ...
Read more13.05.2019
Wear a green ribbon to support World Mental Health Day on 10 October
To show our support for year’s World Mental Health Day, Miles & Partners has joined the Lord Mayor’s Appeal and will be participating in the Green Ribbon Campaign to help end the stigma of mental health. Rachel Turner recently attended ...
Read more08.10.2018
Miles & Partners welcomes Rachel Turner as equity partner
We are delighted to announce that Rachel Turner has joined the equity partnership at Miles & Partners Solicitors in the City of London. Rachel, who is joint head of our Mental Health and Capacity department, joined the firm in 2012 ...
Read more20.09.2018
Floyd Porter receives Accredited Legal Representative status in the Court of Protection
Floyd Porter, partner and joint head of our Mental Capacity team, has been appointed as an Accredited Legal Representative in the Court of Protection with effect from 26 June 2018 by the Law Society of England and Wales as part ...
Read more11.07.2018
Mental capacity team goes from strength to strength with Andrew Bowmer
Andrew Bowmer, a strong practitioner in mental capacity law, joined Miles and Partners on 5 February 2018. Andrew qualified as a solicitor in December 2008, drawing on his previous career working in central Government, including on local authority governance policy ...
Read more15.03.2018
Floyd Porter on BBC Radio 4 Moneybox discussing when an LPA comes into force
Floyd Porter spoke to BBC reporter Tony Bonsignore about lasting powers of attorney on Radio 4’s Moneybox programme on Saturday (27 January). A couple had written into the programme asking for advice when a bank would not limit the amount ...
Read more02.02.2018
Rachel Turner receives accredited legal representative status in the Court of Protection
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 increased the role of the Court of Protection by introducing powers to make decisions on health and welfare matters in addition to its already existing power to make decisions on property and affairs matters. on ...
Read more28.11.2017
Floyd Porter and Rachel Turner for recognition as ‘leaders in their field’ in Chambers and Partners 2018
Floyd Porter and Rachel Turner, partners and joint heads of the mental health and capacity team, at Miles and Partners are to be ranked in the Chambers and Partners UK 2018 directory as ‘leaders in their field’. We are delighted ...
Read more18.07.2017