Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context

Author:   Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland) ,  Rosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK) ,  David Nelken (King's College London UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781509959075


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Format:   Paperback
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This collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice. Traditionally, decisions for persons found to lack capacity are made by others, generally without reference to the person, and this applies especially to those with cognitive and psycho-social disabilities. This book examines the difficulties in establishing effective and deliverable supported decision-making, concluding that approaches to capacity need to be informed by a grounded understanding of how it operates in ‘real life’ contexts. The book focuses on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which recognises the equal right to legal capacity of people with disabilities and requires States Parties to provide support for the exercise of this right. However, 10 years after the CRPD came into force, the shift to legal frameworks for supported decision-making remains at best only partial. With 16 chapters written by contributors from the UK, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey, the collection takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach. Many of the contributors have been directly involved in law reform processes in their home jurisdictions, and thus can combine both academic expertise and practical, grounded awareness of the challenges of legal change.

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Author:   Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland) ,  Rosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK) ,  David Nelken (King's College London UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781509959075


ISBN 10:   1509959076
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Necessary reading for those taking stock of the first wave of scholarship and activism, and working how best to move forward to enhancing the right to the enjoyment of legal capacity on an equal basis. -- Alex Ruck Keene * International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law & Mental Capacity Law and Policy Blog *


Necessary reading for those taking stock of the first wave of scholarship and activism, and working how best to move forward to enhancing the right to the enjoyment of legal capacity on an equal basis. --Alex Ruck Keene, International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law & Mental Capacity Law and Policy Blog


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Mary Donnelly is Professor of Law at University College Cork, Ireland. Rosie Harding is Professor of Law and Society at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK. Ezgi Tascioglu is Lecturer at Keele Law School, UK.

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