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Laura Pritchard-Jones' Outputs (18)

Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy (Ed. by Beverley Clough & Laura Pritchard-Jones) (2024)
Book
Pritchard-Jones, L., & Clough, B. (2024). Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy (Ed. by Beverley Clough & Laura Pritchard-Jones). Bristol University Press

Questions as to the mental capacity of an individual to consent to sex are an increasingly important aspect of legal scholarship and professional practice for those working in care. Recent case law has added new layers of complexity, requiring that a... Read More about Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy (Ed. by Beverley Clough & Laura Pritchard-Jones).

Abuse, Neglect, and Adult Safeguarding in the Context of Mental Health and Disability (2023)
Book Chapter
Pritchard-Jones, L. (2023). Abuse, Neglect, and Adult Safeguarding in the Context of Mental Health and Disability. In Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226413-14

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
Pritchard-Jones, L. (in press). 'Palm Tree Justice': The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases. Modern Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12813

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.

Exploring the Changes and Challenges of COVID-19 in Adult Safeguarding Practice: Qualitative Findings from a Mixed-Methods Project (2022)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones, L., Mehmi, M., Eccleston-Turner, M., & Brammer, A. (2022). Exploring the Changes and Challenges of COVID-19 in Adult Safeguarding Practice: Qualitative Findings from a Mixed-Methods Project. Journal of Adult Protection, 24(3/4), 132-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-01-2022-0002

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a mixed methods study on the impact COVID-19 has had on adult safeguarding. The research sought to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by COVID-19 to both frontline and no... Read More about Exploring the Changes and Challenges of COVID-19 in Adult Safeguarding Practice: Qualitative Findings from a Mixed-Methods Project.

A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY? (2020)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2020). A LOCAL AUTHORITY V JB [2020] EWCA Civ 735 and A LOCAL AUTHORITY V AW [2020] EWCOP 24: RETHINKING SEXUAL CAPACITY?. Medical Law Review, 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwaa028

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
Pritchard-Jones. (2019). Unspoken and unthinkable: The older disabled body in judicial discourse. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 101525 - 101525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101525

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
Pritchard-Jones, L. (2019). The Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Learning Lessons for the Future?. In The Care Act 2014 Wellbeing in Practice

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?.

Safeguarding Adults (2019)
Book
Brammer, A., & Pritchard-Jones, L. (2019). Safeguarding Adults. (2)

Working to safeguard adults is a complex area of practice that requires careful balancing of autonomy, protection and risk. In order to make good, lawful judgements about when and how to intervene, practitioners therefore need to have a comprehensive... Read More about Safeguarding Adults.

Revisiting the Feminist Critique of Rights: Lessons for a New Older Persons' Convention? (2018)
Book Chapter
Pritchard-Jones, L. (2018). Revisiting the Feminist Critique of Rights: Lessons for a New Older Persons' Convention?. In Ageing, Gender and Family Law (109-124)

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
Pritchard-Jones. (2018). ‘Adults at Risk’: ‘Vulnerability’ by Any Other Name?. Journal of Adult Protection, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-07-2017-0029

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?.

"This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection (2016)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2016). "This Man with Dementia" - 'Othering' the Person with Dementia in the Court of Protection. Medical Law Review, 518-543. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fww022

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
Pritchard-Jones. (2016). The good, the bad, and the 'vulnerable older adult'. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2016.1145838

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'.

Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens (2014)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2014). Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens. Health Care Analysis, 72-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-014-0288-1

Ageism within the context of care has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Similarly, autonomy has developed into a prominent concept within health care law and ethics. This paper explores the way that ageism, understood as a set of negati... Read More about Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens.