Backgrounders
Common-Law Tests of Capacity Project Backgrounder no. 1 – Introduction to the Rationalizing and Harmonization of BC Common-Law Tests of Capacity Project
The British Columbia Law Institute has just begun work on a two-year project to examine the legal tests that determine whether a person has the mental capacity necessary to carry out a transaction or enter into a relationship. The Rationalizing and Harmonization of BC Common-Law Tests of Capacity Project focusses […]
Projects
Rationalizing and Harmonization of BC Common-Law Tests of Capacity
It is basic law that mental disability or illness does not, in and of itself, leave a person incapable under the law to carry out transactions, enter into relationships, or manage his or her affairs. The law’s focus is on the degree of mental disability or illness. If a person’s […]