Book contents
- Mental Capacity Legislation
- Mental Capacity Legislation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editors’ Note
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Assessment of Mental Capacity
- Chapter 3 Best Interests
- Chapter 4 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Past, Present and Future
- Chapter 5A Mental Capacity Act Application: Hospital Settings
- Chapter 5B Mental Capacity Act Application: Social Care Settings
- Chapter 6 Mental Capacity and End of Life Decision-Making
- Chapter 7 Clinical Ambiguities in the Assessment of Capacity
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2019
- Mental Capacity Legislation
- Mental Capacity Legislation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Editors’ Note
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Assessment of Mental Capacity
- Chapter 3 Best Interests
- Chapter 4 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Past, Present and Future
- Chapter 5A Mental Capacity Act Application: Hospital Settings
- Chapter 5B Mental Capacity Act Application: Social Care Settings
- Chapter 6 Mental Capacity and End of Life Decision-Making
- Chapter 7 Clinical Ambiguities in the Assessment of Capacity
- Index
- References
Summary
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) received Royal Assent in April 2005, coming into force during 2007 (MCA, 2005). The MCA incorporates into statute, principles and practices that had been established, through case law, over the years. It sets out how mental capacity is defined in law and how ‘best interests’ should be ascertained when a person lacks the requisite capacity to make the decision in question.
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- Mental Capacity LegislationPrinciples and Practice, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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