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New Project Announced: Health Care Consent and Capacity Assessment Tribunals Project
BCLI and CCEL have started a new project on health care, guardianship, and capacity tribunals. The Health Care Consent and Capacity Assessment Tribunals Project follows upon a finding and recommendation in a recent Canadian Centre for Elder Law report, Conversations About Care: The Law and Practice of Health Care Consent […]
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Health Care Consent and Capacity Assessment Tribunals Project – Seeking a Model For British Columbia
Overview The Health Care Consent and Capacity Assessment Tribunals Project followed upon a finding and recommendation in a recent Canadian Centre for Elder Law report, Conversations About Care: The Law and Practice of Health Care Consent for People Living with Dementia in British Columbia(2019). That report identified a need for […]
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Ontario Superior Court Rules on the Capacity to Marry
In December 2017, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled on Hunt v Worrod, 2017 ONSC 7397 (Hunt), wherein the family of a man suffering from a brain injury sought annulment of what the media called a “predatory marriage.” Mr. Hunt was injured in an ATV accident, causing serious brain injury […]