BCLI Forms Project Committee to Investigate Common-Law Tests of Capacity
December 14, 2011
BY Alison Taylor
14 December 2011—The British Columbia Law Institute is embarking on a two-year project to consider reforms to judge-made rules governing when a person is determined to have the mental capacity to carry out a transaction or enter into a relationship.
“Both the aging of society and advances in neuroscience have made a re-examination of the common-law tests of capacity imperative,” said committee chair Andrew MacKay. “I’m looking forward to working with the BCLI and a project committee made up of some of the leading lights in the field to study how the law can better suit the needs of contemporary British Columbians.”
The members of the project committee are:
| Andrew MacKay — Chair Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP |
R.C. (Tino) Di Bella Jawl & Bundon |
| Russell Getz Ministry of Attorney General for British Columbia |
Kimberly Kuntz Bull Housser & Tupper LLP |
| Roger Lee Davis LLP |
Barbara Lindsay Alzheimer Society of British Columbia |
| Catherine Romanko Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia |
Laurie Salvador Salvador Davis & Co. Notaries Public |
| Jack Styan RDSP Resource Centre |
Geoffrey White Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation |
This project has been made possible by grants from the Law Foundation of British Columbia and the Notary Foundation of British Columbia.
Two backgrounders providing further details on the project committee and on the legal issues to be considered in the project are available at www.bcli.org.
The British Columbia Law Institute strives to be a leader in law reform by carrying out the best in scholarly law-reform research and writing and the best in outreach relating to law reform.
To view the project page for the Common-Law Tests of Capacity Project Committee, click here.
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