This article addresses the right to legal capacity to consent to sex of people with intellectual
disabilities. Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities …

In this article, we draw on our experiences of law reform in Ireland to explore how to create a
definition of consent to sex that is inclusive of people with cognitive disabilities. Using critical …

After analysing the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, hereafter referred to as the Committee, this paper examines how the Committee …

Accessible summary People with learning disabilities may not know about sexual
relationships. People with learning disabilities may need education about sexual …

In England and Wales, people with intellectual disabilities have sex in the shadow of two
legal regimes. Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (SOA), it is a criminal offence to engage …

Accessible summary• This paper talks about what a group of people with intellectual
disabilities in Ireland had to say about their experiences of relationships and sexuality, and …

Within the learning disability field, there has for some time been an ongoing debate about
how to balance people's rights to sexual autonomy with appropriate protection from abuse …

What follows is a response to an article by Spiecker and Steutel in which they pose the
question of whether sex between people with" mental retardation"(sic) is morally permissible …

This paper deconstructs the ambitious claims made on behalf of the ability of the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to empower adults with Down …

This paper seeks to examine the notion of consent to sexual activity as it is applied to
situations involving persons with mental disabilities both by both medical professionals and …