This research explores how the experiences of people with learning difficulties and mental health conditions in court are products of power relations. Through employing constructivist methodology and applying Foucauldian and disability theories, this study questions how social barriers to participation in court are reproduced. Discourses of „abnormality‟, risk and security emerging from three semi-structured interviews function to subjugate defendants ‟ knowledges and produce acquiescence. The court produces a variety of contradictory effects, most notably, how performing acquiescence to professional power/knowledge is the most effective means to resist and impact discourses in court
Problem-solving courts, such as drug and mental health courts, function under the model of therapeut...
‘The decision on capacity is one for the judge to make’.1 Deciding whose voices matter in the assess...
A small evidence base suggests that parents with learning disabilities are likely to have their chil...
Background: Giving evidence in court can be a challenging experiencefor any witness. Communication p...
Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales (MCA), the participation of persons in makin...
Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) in England and Wales, the participation of persons in makin...
In this qualitative study I have examined the legal decisions in six U.S. court cases considering th...
This article explores participation in Court of Protection (COP) proceedings by people considered vu...
The paper focuses on the representation of interaction in courtroom scenes in Dickens's Bleak House ...
Mental health courts represent a key component of contemporary responses to mental illness and disab...
Challenges with both receptive and expressive communication are common for people with intellectual ...
Collaboration with clients is an efficient way to develop social services. To strengthen the possibi...
This Article explores ways in which appellate decision-making can be enhanced so as to minimize the ...
The paper focuses on the representation of interaction in courtroom scenes in Dickens's Bleak House ...
This article analyses the role of evidence in resolving Court of Protection proceedings, drawing on ...
Problem-solving courts, such as drug and mental health courts, function under the model of therapeut...
‘The decision on capacity is one for the judge to make’.1 Deciding whose voices matter in the assess...
A small evidence base suggests that parents with learning disabilities are likely to have their chil...
Background: Giving evidence in court can be a challenging experiencefor any witness. Communication p...
Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales (MCA), the participation of persons in makin...
Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) in England and Wales, the participation of persons in makin...
In this qualitative study I have examined the legal decisions in six U.S. court cases considering th...
This article explores participation in Court of Protection (COP) proceedings by people considered vu...
The paper focuses on the representation of interaction in courtroom scenes in Dickens's Bleak House ...
Mental health courts represent a key component of contemporary responses to mental illness and disab...
Challenges with both receptive and expressive communication are common for people with intellectual ...
Collaboration with clients is an efficient way to develop social services. To strengthen the possibi...
This Article explores ways in which appellate decision-making can be enhanced so as to minimize the ...
The paper focuses on the representation of interaction in courtroom scenes in Dickens's Bleak House ...
This article analyses the role of evidence in resolving Court of Protection proceedings, drawing on ...
Problem-solving courts, such as drug and mental health courts, function under the model of therapeut...
‘The decision on capacity is one for the judge to make’.1 Deciding whose voices matter in the assess...
A small evidence base suggests that parents with learning disabilities are likely to have their chil...