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Tag: CRPD


Disability Rights UK – events to feed into shadow CPRD report

Posted on 8 September 2016

Disability Rights UK will be writing a shadow report for England and Wales – and for GB – to inform… Read more

Posted in Conferences, Miscellaneous     Tags: CRPD     Leave a comment     


Essex Autonomy Project Three Jurisdictions CRPD Report just published

Posted on 6 June 2016 Updated on 6 June 2016

The Essex Autonomy Project has just published a major report entitled “Towards Compliance with CRPD Art.12 in Capacity/Incapacity Legislation across… Read more

Posted in Legislative developments     Tags: CRPD     Leave a comment     


CRPD – event on Operationalising Article 12.4 Safeguards: Lessons from Three Jurisdictions of the UK

Posted on 26 February 2016

The Essex Autonomy Project examination of UK compliance with the CRPD with which I am involved is holding what promises to be… Read more

Posted in Conferences     Tags: Conferences, CRPD, EAP     Leave a comment     


Capacity, consent and supported decision-making: RCN Seminar 1 February

Posted on 12 January 2016

My Kings and Chambers colleagues, respectively Professor Genevra Richardson, Dr Jill Craigie and Tor Butler-Cole are giving what promises to be fascinating seminar… Read more

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“Three Jurisdictions” CRPD project is ‘go’

Posted on 28 August 2015 Updated on 28 August 2015

I am very pleased to be able to share the news that funding has been secured for a project (led… Read more

Posted in Legislative developments, Research of interest     Tags: CRPD     Leave a comment     


VOICES Project launched at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy

Posted on 3 August 2015

From NZ, where I’m just finishing up teaching a fascinating (to me!) course on vulnerable adults rights protection at Auckland… Read more

Posted in Research of interest     Tags: CRPD     Leave a comment     


News from Belfast – the NI Mental Capacity Bill

Posted on 1 July 2015 Updated on 6 July 2015

I gave evidence with Caroline Bielanska, Phil Fennell, Julian Hughes, Wayne Martin and George Szmukler to the Ad Hoc Committee… Read more

Posted in Legislative developments     Tags: CRPD, legislative reform     Leave a comment     


Singapore, the MCAs and undue influence

Posted on 1 June 2015 Updated on 23 September 2019

The Court of Appeal in Singapore in Re BKR [2015] SGCA 26 has handed down a decision that exemplifies the… Read more

Posted in Capacity, Case comments, Cross-border     Tags: capacity, cross-border, CRPD     2 Comments     


Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities pronounces on Article 14

Posted on 20 October 2014

With thanks, as ever, to the eagle-eyed Lucy Series for bringing this to my attention, the Committee on the Rights… Read more

Posted in Legislative developments     Tags: CRPD, deprivation of liberty     Leave a comment     


A defence of ‘fusion’ law

Posted on 15 July 2014

[I am very grateful to George Szmukler, Professor of Psychiatry and Society at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, for this… Read more

Posted in Legislative developments     Tags: CRPD, fusion, Northern Ireland     Leave a comment     


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