Add to ORKGThe author considers the 1997 UK government Green Paper proposals on decision-making in relation to mentally incapacitated adults and in particular advance refusals of medical treatment, providing context with reference to the 1995 Law Commission recommendations. Article by Suzanne Woollard (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Wolverhampton) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provide...
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provide...
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 sets out a ground-breaking statutory framework to empower and protect v...
A patient has the exclusive rights to determine what he wants or do not want to be done to his body....
After a very long gestation the Mental Capacity Bill was published earlier this year. Among its prop...
This paper explores the excuses upon which health professionals can rely at common law and under Aus...
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ...
In 1989, the House of Lords first derived a ‘best interests’ test for the medical treatment of adult...
As Australian society 1s agemg, individuals are increasingly concerned about managing their future, ...
This article considers the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom case Aintree University Hospitals NHS...
Advance decisions to refuse medical treatment (“ADRTs”) have been recognised in English law through ...
An Advance care directive entitles a person to request in advance either the refusal of or consent t...
The case concerns the right of a psychiatric patient to choose to die by refusing intervention from ...
This article explores the relationship between competence and authority in relation to medical treat...
This article sets out to consider the extent to which advance directives can be used as an effective...
The law currently does not specifically cater for advance refusal. Law reform is therefore appropri...
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provide...
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 sets out a ground-breaking statutory framework to empower and protect v...
A patient has the exclusive rights to determine what he wants or do not want to be done to his body....