Advancements in communication technology and the exercise of legal capacity

What is it about?

This article is about the novel ways that technology is allowing people, who would otherwise have been deemed mentally (and legally) incompetent, to communicate. The evolving technology, which opens up the power of communication to a new range of legal subjects who might otherwise have faced legal capacity restrictions, raises interesting theoretical questions about the dangers of using mental capacity assessments to frame legal responses aimed at protection and support.

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