If a person, relative, friend or lawyer, is given enduring power of attorney over a living person's affairs, it's more or less impossible to hold them to account for failure to carry out necessary actions etc. Likewise if a person is appointed executor of a deceased person's estate and fails to do anything at all to distribute monies or even account for them, the law doesn't really hold them to account. If they file false accounts, they might be prosecuted, but if they file no accounts at all they will get off scot-free.
If a person, relative, friend or lawyer, is given enduring power of attorney over a living person's affairs, it's more or less impossible to hold them to account for failure to carry out necessary actions etc. Likewise if a person is appointed executor of a deceased person's estate and fails to do anything at all to distribute monies or even account for them, the law doesn't really hold them to account. If they file false accounts, they might be prosecuted, but if they file no accounts at all they will get off scot-free.
Exactly the problem!