This paper follows up on qualitative interviews conducted with British disabled people in
1994-6, exploring how people's lives and relationships have changed over twenty years (n …

This article addresses whether autonomy is being adequately protected within therapeutic
jurisprudence models. It first outlines the history and theory of therapeutic jurisprudence …

Objective: Discussions of capacity to consent in mental health care usually revolve around
capacity to consent to treatment. This paper instead explores the issue of capacity to consent …

It is commonly understood that people's sex lives and sexual orientation are private
concerns, preferably and properly restricted to intimate relationships. Paradoxically, these …

Accessible Summary Support staff play an important role in helping people with learning
disabilities to meet a partner and have a relationship. Not getting good support can make it …

Names: Shuttleworth, Russell, 1953-editor.| Mona, Linda, editor. Title: The Routledge
handbook of disability and sexuality/edited by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona …

People with intellectual disabilities still struggle to enjoy intimate and sexual relationships.
Social workers have a potentially key role in realizing the intimate and sexual rights of …

In this paper, we seek to radically reframe the legal construct of consent from a disability
perspective. Drawing on feminist scholarship and human rights standards around 'free and …

The human right of legal capacity, most recently enunciated in Article 12 of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), potentially transforms …

The right to legal capacity is a new line of scholarly inquiry. It had been largely ignored by
academics until the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) …