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The General Comment on Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a roadmap for equality before the law
(Journal article, 2015)This article examines General Comment No. 1 on the right to equal recognition before the law adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). This general comment deals ... -
Implementing legal capacity under article 12 of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: the difficult road from guardianship to supported decision-making
(Journal article, 2012)This article addresses Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Equal recognition before the law, and its emphasis on supported decision making as one way in which an individual's ... -
Legal Capacity under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Journal article, 2012)Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires states party to ensure that persons with disabilities "enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of ... -
Legislating personhood: Realising the right to support in exercising legal capacity
(Journal article, 2014)This paper examines the regulation of ‘personhood’ through the granting or denying of legal capacity. It explores the development of the concept of personhood through the lens of moral and political philosophy. It highlights ... -
A new paradigm for protecting autonomi and the right to legal capacity. Advancing Substantive Equality for Persons with Disabilities through Law, Policy and Practice. Law Commission of Ontario
(Others, 2010)In this paper, the authors assert that the principles set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities require a paradigm shift in the law of capacity so that the question is no longer: ... -
Supported decision-making from theory to practice: implementing the right to enjoy legal capacity
(Journal article, 2018)The right to equal recognition before the law, protected by Article 12 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), mandates the use of supported decision-making practices to ... -
Supporting Choice and Control—An Analysis of the Approach Taken to Legal Capacity in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme
(Journal article, 2019)In mid-2013, the Australian federal government introduced the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a ground-breaking reform of disability support services, encapsulated by the mantra of increasing “choice and ...