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The 'chimp' comment is worthy of a chimp.
I'm 77 and not a lawyer, and recently completed an LPA online. Passing the 11+ in 1952 would suggest I'm in the top 10% for IQ and, anyway, I have post-grad qualifications, and could complete a form like the LPA in several languages. First, I would have thought that many, not least lawyers, would know that filling in forms is something that many people find difficult, even though they have no 'literacy' problems. I taught under-grads and became dismayed that their schooling had left many lacking in the precise attention to the written word that had been a feature of my Eng Lang classes up to O level.
Even for me, it required close, repeated attention to the instructions, and sorting out the 'options', inc. which pages could be disposed of and which retained even when left blank. I could devise for myself what 'the nature and effect of the LPA' would be, but if you've never really given thought to legal matters (other than on TV), it's difficult to see how the presence/absence of a comma could make a significant difference (old example, given to us in school, which we were also told even lawyers had a problem with, so they missed them out altogether).
I wouldn't fancy having to pay a lawyer/doctor to certify my capacity.
While I was writing my LPA, I read a warning somewhere that turning up with it at eg a bank, might well result in a demand for further proof (unspecified), not merely your ID.