Adults With Incapacity

Twenty years after the first provisions of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 came into force, and with essential law reform processes of the last few years now stalled, it becomes evermore challenging for lawyers, individually and collectively, to deliver an adequate service to promote and safeguard the rights, welfare and interests of people with mental and intellectual disabilities. This webinar will explain why and how legal practice now must raise its game to new levels. Particular topics include these:

• Experience of the pandemic has emphasised, rather than creating, institutional ageism and disability discrimination. Is weariness causing the profession to be complicit in unlawfulness and breach of fundamental rights, often resource-driven? How can we best tackle these issues?

• In particular, are we adequately safeguarding all vulnerable victims of Scotland’s notorious blind spot in relation to unlawful deprivations of liberty? Collectively, are we ensuring that all who are…