If you have been found by a criminal court that you did not know what you were doing was wrong when you killed someone, should … Read More ›
Category: CRPD
As part of ongoing work related to the Australian Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, the Living with Disability Research … Read More ›
Challenges not just to the application, but the very legitimacy, of the concept of mental capacity over the past 10 years have been spearheaded by … Read More ›
A one day seminar on the meaning and practice of supported decision-making is being held by the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics at King’s … Read More ›
Not just those within Ireland, but also those interested from other jurisdictions, in seeing how a hugely important law reform in this area is being … Read More ›
I set out here the text of a joint statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, and … Read More ›
The Independent Review of Learning Disability and Autism in Scotland’s mental health legislation has published two important reports to sit alongside its final report and … Read More ›
The CPRD Committee issued its most recent concluding observations in September 2019, on Albania, Australia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, India, Iraq, Kuwait, and Myanmar. For … Read More ›
In Rooman v Belgium [2019] ECHR 105, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights undertook an important review and clarification of its … Read More ›
In A Clinical Commissioning Group v P (Withdrawal of CANH) [2019] EWCOP 18, MacDonald J gave a detailed judgment to explain why he endorsed an … Read More ›