Mental Capacity Law in New Zealand is a comprehensive text on the legal position of people who lack capacity, in many different contexts, including their position regarding health care, residential placement, property management, and participation in legal proceedings.
General Editors Iris Reuvecamp and John Dawson have assembled a team of subject matter experts from both legal and medical backgrounds who cover all major areas of the law of mental capacity in New Zealand (except the criminal law).
The early chapters of the book discuss important general concerns relevant to these capacity matters, including ethical, Maori, clinical, and human rights concerns. The next section discusses various sources of authority or justification that proxy decision-makers can rely upon when they act on another?s behalf. Further sections then address these capacity questions in more specific contexts, including making decisions about one?s personal care and welfare, making a will, and managing one?s property. The Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 (the PPPRA) is prominent in the discussion as the single most important piece of legislation in the field.
