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As part of the guardianship application process prospective lay guardians are asked to complete a 'declaration form' The form seeks information about the lay guardian’s circumstances, order. The information captured at this stage provides the court with adequate information to fully, be sent to us along with intimation of the summary application. When we receive the form, a copy, may flag concern in respect of their suitability. For further information please email
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Please note that we are working with a skeleton staff. To ensure that essential services are maintained as far as possible we have prioritised our work and will be focussing on processing critical work. We ask that you email us instead of telephoning as we can get more work processed this way. Urgent enquiries should be clearly marked as URGENT, explaining the reason for the urgency, and emailed to opg@scotcourts.gov.uk Thank you for your co-operation
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what the PoA could look like and the type of information that is included in a PoA see our section
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in doing so. If you wish us to be involved in an event or to provide an information session, please send your request, detailing as much information as possible about the purpose of the event and numbers attending to: opg@scotcourts.gov.uk This information will help us to assess how best we can help, meetings around the country to inform of our role and the options available for financial decision making under the AWI Act. The majority of the outreach we provide are events or information sessions
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Attorneys are reminded to tell us about any changes to a registered power of attorney. Changes include: death of a granter or an attorney, changing address, bankruptcy, resignation etc.More information about attorney duties in relation to changes in circumstance is available from the website
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We provide an (optional) attorney declaration form that can be used to record that a named attorney is willing to act in terms of the PoA. This form has been updated to include information for attorneys on what their duties and responsibilities are, therefore although the form is not mandatory, we do strongly encourage its use
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There is a fault with our electronic registration facility, known as EPOAR. This has been escalated to our IT team to investigate. We are unable to give further information at the moment but will provide an update when we know more and when the fault has been resolved. You can however to continue submit powers of attorney via the EPOAR system meantime. We are continuing to work on EPOAR cases, apologies for any inconvenience caused
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the data protection law you are entitled to obtain certain personal information that an organisation holds about you. General information about the data protection principles and your rights can, When an appointment has been registered under the terms of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) 2000, be provided for the appointed person e.g. any attorney, guardian, intervener or withdrawer and also for the adult/granter concerned. Please tell us about a change of address. This information
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immediately to allow decisions to be taken; New applications for intervention and guardianship orders, along with any urgent court orders; Urgent Inventories of Estate, Management Plans and Applications, :
Preparing an inventory, management plan, account, renewing authority etc
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business.
Our overriding aim is to ensure that the principles of the Adults with Incapacity, enquiries within set timescales. Information on our standards of service can be found in our customer charter We want to minimise any inconvenience and reduce anxiety to our customers by setting out, professional manner. Further information is available in the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service Equality, , information about our complaints procedure is available from the Scottish Courts & Tribunals website