SFE (Solicitors for the Elderly) is a specialist group of lawyers to support and make a difference to older and vulnerable people. (By vulnerable they mean people who may not be able bodied and/or who may be mentality incapacitated i.e. they need help to make decisions or they can’t make decisions for themselves.)
SFE is a national organisation with over 1600 members across the United Kingdom and a separate group in the Republic of Ireland.
They support solicitors by providing them with expert training and best practice: keep them up to date with any market developments; promote them through their website and press coverage; help them to help each other through their members advice forum as well as running national and regional events and keeping them up to date with the latest case law related to older clients.
Only a very select group of people can become members of SFE. They must be fully qualified, regulated and insured Solicitors, Barristers or Chartered Legal Executives and they must spend at least 50% of their time working with older and vulnerable clients.
SFE is a community of trusted advisers – professionally highly qualified and regulated and who also have additional skills to enable them to work with older and vulnerable clients.