This paper examines mental capacity as a medico-legal social construct and concludes that, while the construct works reasonably well in the contexts of property-related transactions and health-treatment decisions, it is deeply problematic and is a source of dysfunction in the context of guardianship and guardianship-type interventions. There is nothing natural, compelling, or necessary about the concept of mental capacity, and the author proposes an alternate construct more consistent with the purpose of guardianship and guardianship-type interventions: vulnerability. As the capacity construct is deeply enmeshed with a traditional liberal theory of autonomy (the capacity-autonomy equation or paradigm), so the vulnerability construct describ...
This article engages with emerging debates in law and feminist philosophy around the concept of vuln...
This article draws upon the civic republican tradition to offer new conceptual resources for the nor...
The concept of capacity that emerges from the Mental Capacity Act (2005) is conceptually flawed and ...
The UK Mental Capacity Act provides an important legislative framework for protecting persons who ar...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
The law’s cliff-edge approach to mental capacity denies those who lack capacity any right to determi...
This paper explores the distinction between being autonomous and having capacity for the purposes of...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
With the waves of reform occurring in mental health legislation in England and other jurisdictions, ...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
Within law and legal scholarship there are different models of legal personality and legal capacity....
This article explores the development of law and policy relating to mental capacity law, situating t...
Recent legal developments challenge how valid the concept of mental capacity is in determining wheth...
This article engages with emerging debates in law and feminist philosophy around the concept of vuln...
This article draws upon the civic republican tradition to offer new conceptual resources for the nor...
The concept of capacity that emerges from the Mental Capacity Act (2005) is conceptually flawed and ...
The UK Mental Capacity Act provides an important legislative framework for protecting persons who ar...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
The law’s cliff-edge approach to mental capacity denies those who lack capacity any right to determi...
This paper explores the distinction between being autonomous and having capacity for the purposes of...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
With the waves of reform occurring in mental health legislation in England and other jurisdictions, ...
This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understandin...
Within law and legal scholarship there are different models of legal personality and legal capacity....
This article explores the development of law and policy relating to mental capacity law, situating t...
Recent legal developments challenge how valid the concept of mental capacity is in determining wheth...
This article engages with emerging debates in law and feminist philosophy around the concept of vuln...
This article draws upon the civic republican tradition to offer new conceptual resources for the nor...
The concept of capacity that emerges from the Mental Capacity Act (2005) is conceptually flawed and ...