Outputs (14)

Abuse, Neglect, and Adult Safeguarding in the Context of Mental Health and Disability (2023)
Book Chapter

Unlike child protection, adult safeguarding has only recently developed as an area of law and practice in its own right. This is undoubtedly, at least in part, due to the emergence of national scandals involving horrendous abuse and neglect of adults... Read More about Abuse, Neglect, and Adult Safeguarding in the Context of Mental Health and Disability.

'Palm Tree Justice': The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases (2023)
Journal Article

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 came into force in 2007 and now provides the legal framework governing what practitioners can do, and when, where it is believed someone’s capacity to make decisions is compromised because of a disturbance in the function... Read More about 'Palm Tree Justice': The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases.

A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY? (2020)
Journal Article

In A Local Authority v JB and A Local Authority v AW the Court of Appeal and Court of Protection respectively had to consider questions regarding decision making about sexual relationships. This case commentary suggests that both decisions are to be... Read More about A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY?.

Unspoken and unthinkable: The older disabled body in judicial discourse (2019)
Journal Article

While much has been said about gendered bodies in legal discourse, as yet relatively little has been written about older bodies. This is surprising given the fact older people are statistically far more likely to be the subjects of certain areas of l... Read More about Unspoken and unthinkable: The older disabled body in judicial discourse.

The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future? (2019)
Book Chapter

8. The. Care. Act. 2014. and. the. Mental. Capacity. Act. 2005: learning. lessons. for. the. future? Laura Pritchard-Jones ... and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 attempted to fill 'legal vacuum[s]' (Manthorpe et al., 2013:369): the Mental Capac... Read More about The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future?.

Revisiting the Feminist Critique of Rights: Lessons for a New Older Persons' Convention? (2018)
Book Chapter

There are two main strands into which feminist criticisms of human rights fall. The first is criticisms of the utility and efficacy of human rights laws specifically applicable to women, notably, treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of... Read More about Revisiting the Feminist Critique of Rights: Lessons for a New Older Persons' Convention?.

‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name? (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and critique the conceptual and terminological shift – particularly from ‘vulnerability’ to ‘adult at risk’ - in adult safeguarding under the Care Act 2014 and the Social Services and Well-being (Wales... Read More about ‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name?.

A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Capacity Act. (2016)
Journal Article

"This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection (2016)
Journal Article

In recent years, dementia has been subjected to an increasing ethical, legal, and political gaze. This article analyses how the Court of Protection considers the perspective of the person with dementia when making best interests decisions on their be... Read More about "This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection.

The good, the bad, and the 'vulnerable older adult' (2016)
Journal Article

Recent declarations by the Court of Appeal indicate that the inherent jurisdiction has survived the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for adults considered ‘vulnerable’ and whose decision-making is threatened by reasons other than mental... Read More about The good, the bad, and the 'vulnerable older adult'.