A New Paradigm for Protecting Autonomy and the Right to Legal Capacity

This paper explores how individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities should be expected to make decisions within a liberal-democratic society, in which the state is charged with protecting citizens’ free rights to make their own decisions.

A New Paradigm for Protecting Autonomy and the Right to Legal Capacity
Authors: Michael Bach & Lana Kerzner
Publication Date:  October 2010
Publisher: The Law Commission of Ontario