MENTALLY DISABLED

'best interests' & the implications of the Mental Capacity Bill - 2004, 153, 152
caesarean, use of mental health act to compel - 1999, 140/141, 43
care in the community, property law issues - 1994, 122/123, 125
categorisation of mental patients on admission to hospital - 1999, 140/141, 79
decision making: carers needs are not considered unless they impact on the incapacitated person - 2007, 159, 89
decisions about end of life treatment for incompetent patients - 1994, 122/123, 80
discrimination, negligence and lack of attention given to people with learning disabilities, brief review - 2019, 182, 3
Do Not Resuscitate orders (DNACPR): controversy about overuse during covid pandemic particularly for learning disabled, ECHR ruled there is right to be consulted - 2021, 186, 44
end of life: how to define humanity - 2005, 154, 57
informal sharia ceremony in which one party lacked capacity, declared a non-marriage (case) - 2014, 172, 72
Jehovah's Witness adult lacking capacity to consent to blood transfusion; court rules doctors can give without disproportionate effect on rights (case) - 2019, 183, 238
Jehovah's Witness with Alzheimer's and a properly made advance decision to refuse blood / blood products; inconsistent actions & lack of capacity led to ruling that she has transfusion (case) - 2022, 188, 97
Jew with dementia; despite lack of capacity, ruled in his best interests to move to Jewish care home (case) - 2022, 188, 89
learning disabled adults deprived of liberty by their care breaches Article 5 (case) - 2014, 173, 109
learning disabled woman contracted arranged marriage in Bangladesh, courts rules it invalid & nullity should be declared (case) - 2012, 169, 294
mental capacity, do most people have this in terms of truly rational and independant decision making? - 2018, 180, 5
mentally-impaired man ruled competent to make tithe from inheritance to Church despite meaning benefits would need claiming sooner (case) - 2014, 173, 231
mental incapacity assessment in case involving autism and extreme religious indoctrination (case) - 2021, 186, 79
mentally incapacitated adults and decision making - 1992, 112/113, 23
murder, diminished responsibility in the law of - 2006, 156, 48
muslim in care lacking capacity; court rules should not have to fast in Ramadan or have body hair trimmed (case) - 2017, 179, 235
Nigerian lady with limited mental capacity & pregnant, court rules for abortion against wishes but overturned on appeal (case) - 2019, 183, 250
sexual relationships between the - 1990, 104/105, 87
should legal system assume all are vulnerable / disabled as the norm and put focus on the special privileges of e.g. the able bodied? - 2018, 180, 5; cf 2019, 182, 58
sterilisation and consent - 1989, 100/101, 2
sterilising woman with severe learning difficulties, decision on - 2000, 145, 60
vegetative state: Supreme Court rules no longer necessary to apply to Court of Protection to wihtdraw food/fluids if doctors & family agree (case) - 2018, 181, 232
Northern Ireland
adult with learning difficulties & Jehovah's Witness mother should have blood products available to preserve life during dental surgery (case) - 2013, 171, 121

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