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This paper will examine current approaches to mental incapacity and how these views have altered since the 1920s. Does a statutory definition of 'a person without capacity' add anything to rthe existing common law and what are relevant criteria to be taken into account when decisions are taken on behalf of an incompetent ...
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www.allacademic.com/meta/p116753_index.html
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Conclusions Mental incapacity to make decisions on treatment is common in people admitted to psychiatric wards from the community but cannot be presumed. It is usual in those detained under the Mental Health Act and common in those admitted voluntarily...
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bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/337/jun30_1/a448
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Here you can browse documents produced by the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Incapacity Bill arranged with the most recently published at the top...
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www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt/jtdmi.htm
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Mental Capacity Bill ... This is the text of the Mental Capacity Bill, as introduced in the House of Commons on 17th June 2004 ... Mr David Lammy has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998: In my view the provisions of the Mental Capacity Bill are compatible with the Convention rights...
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www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmbills/120/...
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmbills/120/2004120.htm
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Doctors working in medical wards with acutely ill and predominantly elderly patients need to be more aware that mental incapacity among their patients-and therefore the inability to give informed ... Although patients' mental incapacity is becoming increasingly important in clinical practice, little information is available...
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www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/15079.php
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(d) A child shall be exempt from the compulsory school attendance requirement set forth in subsection (a) of this section if the requirements of this subsection, relating to physical or mental incapacity, are met. ... Physical or mental incapacity consists of incapacity for school attendance and the performance of school work.
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Stata Corporation, 2003). The prevalence figure for mental incapacity was calculated with 95% confidence intervals. Conventional bivariate methods were used to compare patients who were judged to lack capacity with those who were judged to have capacity.
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bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/187/4/379
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1987), the ALJ noted that in rare cases, courts have held that memory loss or other forms of mental incapacity may permit equitable tolling of the statute of limitations (i.e., suspension of the running of the statute of limitations), but only where the mental incapacity rendered the employee unable to pursue legal...
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www.dwd.state.wi.us/lirc/erdecsns/560.htm
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Judging Mental Incapacity ... Mental incapacity manifests itself in so many ways that it makes for a very difficult issue to legislate. So don’t do it. It is as simple as that. If you think someone is crazy and represents a danger to you then the burden is on you to prove it.
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www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/13/the-libertarian-har...
www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/11/13/the-libertarian-hard-cases-part-ii-mental-incapacity/
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