Laws Impacting the Exercise of Legal Capacity
- Laws (legislation) which regulate legal capacity cover the following areas:
- Guardianship
- Powers of attorney
- Legal recognition of support people
- Health care decisions
- Adult protection
- These laws are all provincial/territorial and are different in each jurisdiction
- Caselaw
- Example – Starson v. Swayze, Supreme Court of Canada, 2013 (capacity to make treatment decisions)
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