It argues that relational autonomy provides a better framework for understanding older adult choices in situations of abuse than traditional theories of autonomy. The article examines current approaches to prot
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) governs decision-making processes on behalf of adults who are unable to give informed consent, whether they lose mental capacity at some point in their lives due to illness or injury or where the incapacitating condition
last five years, litigating and practicing law in various courts and other tribunals in BC Important to know Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must: Successfully meet the legal requirements under the Criminal Records Review Act to work with children and/or vulnerable adults. Co...
Deborah described it as a “digital version” of rape: “you’re still being exploited, you’re still being made very vulnerable and it’s still against your will … you’re being raped, it’s just in a different way, it’s just a new version of it.” And yet, non-consensual ...
last five years, litigating and practicing law in various courts and other tribunals in BC Important to know Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must: Successfully meet the legal requirements under the Criminal Records Review Act to work with children and/or vulnerable adults. Co...
The Courts reasoning was that “in the absence of any legislative definition of the constitutional offence of blasphemy, it is impossible to say of what the offence of blasphemy consists“. And for a long time, that was that. Just as well, too, for if the rather mild Sunday Independant ...
secular anti-trafficking law that apparently exempts voluntary sex work when in fact, the Trafficking Bill channelled the very spirit of the ITPA, did not repeal the ITPA and was on all counts, a draconian criminal law bound to adversely affect several vulnerable groups in addition to sex ...
Crossett, on the Louisiana border, is the county seat and has a population of about six thousand. It’s the very definition or small-town, rural law practice. Michael’s small-town lawyer test (posted on a trial lawyer’s listserv) consists of a summary of various cases he handled in ...
In addition to my presumption statute, the new law (HB 409/Offenses Against Vulnerable Persons) creates the nation’s only elder hearsay exception and eliminates the requirement of proving deception or intimidation in elder exploitation cases. Elder financial exploitation is a problem of enormous ...
Lord Dyson MR found that ‘Although the police officers were acting in what they thought to be the best interests of ZH, on the judge’s findings they made serious errors which led them to treat this vulnerable young man in a way which caused him great distress and anguish…nothing could ...