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Capacity to protect
— the Mental Capacity Act explained | | Author(s) | Toby Williamson |
| Journal title | The Journal of Adult Protection, vol 9, no 1, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 25-32 |
| Source | Website: http://www.pavpub.com |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Court of protection ; Law. |
| Annotation | 2007 marks a major step forward in the history of adult protection with the implementation in England and Wales of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Understandably, debates about adult protection have usually focused on the more obvious types of abuse: sexual, physical, financial and emotional. The Act addresses a much wider issue of abuse, where a person's right to make decisions and to have proper safeguards and protection if decisions need making on their behalf is overridden or ignored. This article gives an overview of the Act and its relevance to the files of adult protection. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070511204 A |
| Classmark | E: JVC: VR |
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