Contested Assessment research

Workstream 6

Broad concepts and messy realities: optimising the application of mental capacity criteria – Kim, S. et al. (2021)

Scott Kim, Nuala Kane, Alex Ruck Keene, Gareth Owen Journal of Medical Ethics. Published Online First: 02 August 2021. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107571 Abstract Most jurisdictions require that a...

Applying decision-making capacity criteria in practice: A content analysis of court judgments – Kane, N. et al.(2021)

15 Feb, 21 | 2021, Contested Assessment, Output

Kane, N., Ruck Keene, A., Owen, G., Kim, S. PLOS ONE, Published: February 5,...

Avoiding hard capacity assessments will not help. Kane, N., Ruck Keene, A., & Owen, G. (2020).

23 Nov, 20 | 2020, Contested Assessment, Output

The British Journal of Psychiatry, 216(3), 165-165.

The ‘Mental Health and Justice Project’: Using interdisciplinarity to move beyond impasse in disability rights. Gergel, T. (2020).

22 Aug, 20 | 2020, Advance Directives, Community Participation, Contested Assessment, Insight, Legal Capacity, Metacognition, Output

International Journal of law and Psychiatry, 71, 101570-101570.

Taking capacity seriously? Ten years of mental capacity disputes before England's Court of Protection

3 Dec, 18 | 2018, Contested Assessment, Output

Abstract Most of the late 20th century wave of reforms in mental capacity or competence law were predicated upon the...

Paradigm shifts or mirages?

27 Sep, 17 | 2017, Contested Assessment, Output

The Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the compliance of United...

Hard Capacity Cases – An English Perspective and a Plea for Help

13 Sep, 17 | 2017, Contested Assessment, Output

Alex Ruck Keene 7th August 2017

Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

14 Jun, 17 | 2017, Contested Assessment, Output

Is mental capacity in the eye of the beholder? The law, at least in England and Wales, divides adults [1] into those...