King's College London and 39 Essex Chambers, London.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2020 May-Jun;70:101560. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101560. Epub 2020 Apr 11.
In the course of a few short weeks, many of the established legal frameworks relating to decision-making in England & Wales in respect of those with impaired decision-making capacity have been ripped up, or apparently rendered all but unusable. Although the Mental Capacity Act 2005 itself has not been amended, the impact of other legislation (especially the Coronavirus Act 2020) means that duties towards those with impaired decision-making capacity have been radically changed. This article reflects the experience of a practising barrister in England & Wales grappling with the impact of COVID-19 upon the Mental Capacity Act 2005 across a range of fields in the weeks after the world appeared to change in mid-March 2020.
在短短几周内，英格兰和威尔士与那些决策能力受损的人相关的许多既定法律框架被彻底推翻，或者显然变得几乎无法使用。尽管 2005 年《精神能力法》本身并未修改，但其他立法的影响（特别是 2020 年《冠状病毒法》）意味着对那些决策能力受损的人的责任发生了根本性的变化。本文反映了一位在英格兰和威尔士执业的大律师的经验，他在 2020 年 3 月中旬世界似乎发生变化后的几周内，应对 COVID-19 对 2005 年《精神能力法》在一系列领域的影响。
