questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of existing legal mechanisms for resolving disputes between carers and estates in cases where care-related costs were incurred based on written but non-contractual agreements.
answerText: In England and Wales, contract law is largely a matter of common law rather than statute. There is no legally specified template for a contract. However, a contract is formed when an agreement contains several key elements such as the making and acceptanc...
heading: Administration of Estates: Carers