The article discusses the challenges of assessing presidential mental capacity, especially as age-related decline becomes more common. The 25th Amendment relies on political judgment rather than ...

Today, Your Legal Corner provides an overview regarding mental capacity assessment. How actions are perceived by others is worth reviewing. If I run to the hair salon in yesterday’s clothes without ...

Within the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental capacity means the ability to make a decision. A person's capacity to make a decision can be affected by a range of factors such as a stroke, ...

Social workers need to work harder to enable service users to make decisions for themselves, says independent mental capacity advocate and consultant Natalie Saunders. (Image: Purestock/Getty Images) ...

When assessing mental capacity it is important that we don't set our expectations about the required level of understanding too high. Various judgements from the Court of Protection have made it very ...

Mental capacity is the ability to receive and process information to make and communicate decisions on specific questions. We make decisions all day every day, from deciding what to eat and what to ...