Today, Your Legal Corner provides an overview regarding mental capacity assessment. How actions are perceived by others is worth reviewing. If I run to the hair salon in yesterday’s clothes without ...

Within the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental capacity means the ability to make a decision. A person's capacity to make a decision can be affected by a range of factors such as a stroke, ...

The process of assessing a person’s mental capacity is often misunderstood by social care practitioners as they seek to apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and the lessons from ...

When assessing mental capacity it is important that we don't set our expectations about the required level of understanding too high. Various judgements from the Court of Protection have made it very ...