Protecting and empowering vulnerable adults : mental capacity law in practice
This thesis uses a socio-legal methodology to investigate how mental capacity law balances protection and empowerment of vulnerable adults in cases concerning capacity to: consent to sex, marry and decide on contact. The thesis questions answered are: 1) Who is understood to be vulnerable in mental...
Main Author: | Lindsey, Jaime Tabitha |
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University of Birmingham
2018
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760404 |
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