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The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges.

Stavert, Jill

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Abstract

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly as interpreted in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities General Comment No. 1, presents a significant challenge to all jurisdictions that equate interventions permitted under their mental health and incapacity laws with mental capacity. This is most notable in terms of the General Comment’s requirement that substitute decision-making regimes must be abolished. Notwithstanding this, it also offers the opportunity to revisit conceptions about the exercise of legal capacity and how this might be better supported and extended through supported decision-making. This article will offer some preliminary observations on this using Scottish mental health and incapacity legislation as an illustration although this may also have relevance to other jurisdictions.

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Competency and Capacity: Issues Affecting Health Law, Policy and Society)

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Stavert, J. (2015). The exercise of legal capacity, supported decision- making and Scotland’s mental health and incapacity legislation: working with CRPD challenges. Laws, 4(2), 296-313. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws4020296

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 9, 2015
Online Publication Date Jun 18, 2015
Publication Date Jun 18, 2015
Deposit Date Jul 7, 2017
Publicly Available Date Jul 7, 2017
Journal Laws
Electronic ISSN 2075-471X
Publisher MDPI
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 4
Issue 2
Pages 296-313
DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/laws4020296
Keywords Article 12 CRPD; exercise of legal capacity; supported decision-making;will and preferences; human rights; Scottish legislation;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/396356
Contract Date Jul 7, 2017

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