Herring

VULNERABLE ADULTS & THE LAW C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780198737278
• ISBN-10: 0198737270
• Artikelnr.: 47864776

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Herring is a Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University. He has written on family law, medical law, criminal law, and legal issues surrounding care and old age. His books include: Caring and the Law (2014) Older People in Law and Society (OUP, 2009); European Human Rights and Family Law (Hart, 2010) (With Shazia Choudhry); Medical Law and Ethics (OUP 2014); Criminal Law, (OUP, 2014); Family Law (Pearson, 2015); and The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (Pearson, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Why We are Vulnerable, Incapacitious, and Relational
3: Vulnerable Adults and Human Rights
4: The Definition of Capacity
5: The Development of the Inherent Jurisdiction: The Use of the Jurisdiction
6: Public Law Protections of Vulnerable Adults
7: Vulnerable Adults and the Criminal Law
8: Vulnerable Adults and Contracts
9: Conclusion