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- Notes on contributor
- James Hurford is a practising solicitor, with a background in public law, human rights and mental capacity. He has also taught Medical Law on the MA in Bioethics and Medical Law St Mary's University Twickenham.
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- International Instruments
- Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
- (United Nations, 2008) Article 3
- European Convention on Human Rights
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- Article 8
- Statutes
- Mental Capacity Act 2005, c. 9 s.4(2)
- s.4(6)
- s.4(6)(a)
- s.26
- Suicide Act 1961, c. 60 s 2(1)
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- England and Wales
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- Briggs v Briggs [2016] EWCOP 53
- Hales v Pettit (1562) 75 ER 387
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