Chandler Kim, White Ben, Willmott Lindy
PhD Candidate, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology.
Professor, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2018 Jul 9;25(3):465-484. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2018.1467805. eCollection 2018.
This is the first article in a two-part series that establishes a framework for evaluating law as it affects the rights to liberty and security for people with intellectual and cognitive impairments. Such laws include those which permit the detention and use of restrictive practices for 'challenging behaviours' or 'behaviours of concern'. This article begins by examining the nature of rights and in particular those of liberty and security. Both are recognised not only as human rights but also as common law rights. The article then develops a rights-based approach to law that protects these rights. Taking a 'thin' version of the rule of law as the starting point, the approach expands this by adding a requirement to respect not only common law rights but human rights. The rights-based approach then argues for the inclusion of the principle of justice requiring the prioritisation of rights over other policy imperatives and a commitment to equal concern and respect.
这是一个分为两部分的系列文章中的第一篇，该系列文章建立了一个框架，用于评估影响智力和认知障碍者自由权和安全权的法律。这类法律包括那些允许对“挑战性行为”或“令人关切的行为”进行拘留和使用限制措施的法律。本文首先审视权利的本质，尤其是自由权和安全权的本质。这两项权利不仅被视为人权，也被视为普通法权利。然后，本文发展出一种基于权利的法律方法来保护这些权利。该方法以“狭义”的法治概念为起点，并通过增加不仅要尊重普通法权利，还要尊重人权的要求来对其进行扩展。基于权利的方法随后主张纳入正义原则，该原则要求权利优先于其他政策要务，并致力于平等的关切和尊重。
