Skowron Paul
School of Law, University of Salford, Salford, UK
Med Law Rev. 2014 Fall;22(4):631-9. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwu014. Epub 2014 Apr 11.
McFarlane LJ's leading judgment in PC v City of York Council consistently stresses the 'plain' statutory language of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. In doing so, it reveals how intractably difficult performing an assessment in accord with the Act can sometimes be. In particular, it raises questions about the sources of evidence upon which a finding of incapacity can be based, illustrates that causation under the Act may have been widely neglected, and highlights contestable assumptions that underlie the Act's 'decision-specific' approach to assessment.
麦克法兰·L·J在“PC诉约克市议会案”中的主要判决始终强调2005年《精神能力法》“直白”的法定语言。这样做揭示了有时按照该法案进行评估会有多棘手。特别是，它引发了关于可依据何种证据来源做出无行为能力认定的问题，表明该法案下的因果关系可能一直被广泛忽视，并突出了该法案“针对具体决策”评估方法所基于的有争议的假设。
