Supported Decision-Making from Theory to Practice: Implementing the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity
Societies, 2018 The right to equal recognition before the law, protected by Article 12 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), mandates the use of supported decision-making practices to enable disabled people ...
Rosie Harding, Ezgi Taşcıoğlu
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Relationships, autonomy and legal capacity: Mental capacity and support paradigms [PDF]
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2015 Within law and legal scholarship there are different models of legal personality and legal capacity. The most well known of these emphasises individual rationality, and is distilled into the medico-legal concept of 'mental capacity'. In connection with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) a new approach to legal ...
Lucy Series
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Deprivation of legal capacity, in light of the concept of legal capacity as a human right [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2020 In the legal system of the Republic of Serbia, every individual is is guaranteed the right to legal personality (Article 37, para. 1 of the Constitution).
Simonović Ivana
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Legal Capacity and Supported Decision-Making: Lessons from Some Recent Legal Reforms
Laws, 2019 Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calls for a thorough review of State laws to recognise the right of persons with disabilities to enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others, thereby abolishing substitute ...
Antonio Martinez-Pujalte
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Laws, 2019 In mid-2013, the Australian federal government introduced the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a ground-breaking reform of disability support services, encapsulated by the mantra of increasing “choice and control„.
Emily Cukalevski
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Decision-Making, Legal Capacity and Neuroscience: Implications for Mental Health Laws
Laws, 2015 Neuroscientific endeavours to uncover the causes of severe mental impairments may be viewed as supporting arguments for capacity-based mental health laws that enable compulsory detention and treatment. This article explores the tensions between clinical,
Bernadette McSherry
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The European Union’s Legal Personality in International Law – Character, Structure, and Scope [PDF]
Studia Europejskie, 2023 In this paper, the author considers the issues of one’s legal personality in international law in general, with emphasis on the international legal personality of the European Union.
Matej Savić
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Forensic Value of Genetic Variants Associated with Anti-Social Behavior
Diagnostics, 2021 Insanity defense is sometimes invoked in criminal cases, and its demonstration is usually based on a multifactorial contribution of behavioural, clinical, and neurological elements.
Antonio Oliva +4 more
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Legal capacity and biomedicine: Biomedical discrimination [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2011 The article begins with the overview of the legal capacity as a general legal qualification recognized by the legal order guaranteeing the right to be a holder of rights and obligations.
Cvetić Radenka
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Child's legal personality: actualization of opportunities and their limitations
Правоприменение, 2023 The subject of this research is the concept of a child’s legal capacity in an interdisciplinary context and the validity of various approaches for determining the essence and scope of a child’s legal capacity in terms of Russian public and private ...
N. N. Tarusina +2 more
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