Mental Incapacity Bill (draft)

The Law Commission began work to revise the law relating to mental incapacity a decade ago, and the resulting documents have been considered in Bulletins from No. 106 onwards. A draft Bill has now been written and is being considered by a Parliamentary committee: it has nothing to say on medical research. Both that committee and the Dept. of Constitutional Affairs apparently find medical research too difficult to deal with. The following sections deal with definitions, best interests, and advance and excluded decisions.