Tag: decision-making

  • Regulation on the Protection of Adults

    Regulation on the Protection of Adults

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    EU citizens with disabilities continue to be stripped of their legal capacity in many Member States by way of systems of ‘guardianship’. When this happens, they are not allowed to make decisions about their lives, like where and with whom to live, or how to spend their money. Countries often frame this as ‘protection’, but…

  • Ireland: Legal Capacity in Ireland

    Ireland: Legal Capacity in Ireland

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    Validity (formerly MDAC) has returned from a mission to Ireland. On 29 November 2011, Oliver Lewis, Validity’s Executive Director, with colleagues from Amnesty International Ireland, met with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Justice Committee of the Dáil Éireann (the House of Representatives, the lower chamber in the Irish Parliament) and then with senior…