• Membership changes

• Introduction

• Overview, key terminology and background to the Bill

• General issues arising in the Bill
  • Applicability to missing people
  • Applicability to charities
  • Complaints process
  • Section 104 order (covering power to gather information for both judicial factors (section 12) and the Accountant of Court (section 39))
  • Data protection issues

• Part 1 of the Bill – appointment as a judicial factor
  • Section 4 of the Bill: discretion of the court in appointing judicial factors (and whether any qualifications should be considered necessary)
    • General views on discretion of the court
    • The Law Society’s in-house judicial factor
  • Section 5 of the Bill: Caution
  • Register for the appointment of judicial factors

• Part 2 of the Bill – functions of a judicial factor
  • Section 17 of the Bill: Power to invest
  • Fiduciary nature of the judicial factor
  • Power to seek directions from the court

• Part 3 of the Bill – judicial factors’ legal relationships with third parties
  • Liability for legal costs

• Part 4 of the Bill – end of the judicial factoring arrangement and a judicial factor's role in the estate
  • Sections 34 and 38

• Part 5 of the Bill – role of the Accountant of Court
  • Qualifications
  • Complaints referred by the Accountant of Court to professional bodies (SLCC’s role)

• Drafting points raised by stakeholders

• Delegated Powers Memorandum

• Financial Memorandum

• Conclusions on the general principles of the Bill

• Annexe A: Extracts from minutes

• Annexe B: Evidence