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dc.contributor.authorPurser, Kelly Jayneen
dc.contributor.authorMagner, Eilisen
dc.contributor.authorMadison, Jeanneen
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-01T11:48:00Z-
dc.date.created2012en
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13479-
dc.description.abstractBalancing the competing interests of autonomy and protection of individuals is an escalating challenge confronting an ageing Australian society. Legal and medical professionals are increasingly being asked to determine whether individuals are legally competent/capable to make their own testamentary and substitute decision-making, that is financial and/or personal/ health care, decisions. No consistent and transparent competency/capacity assessment paradigm currently exists in Australia. Consequently, assessments are currently being undertaken on an ad hoc basis which is concerning as Australia's population ages and issues of competency/capacity increase. The absence of nationally accepted competency/capacity assessment guidelines and supporting principles results in legal and medical professionals involved with competency/capacity assessment implementing individual processes tailored to their own abilities. Legal and medical approaches differ both between and within the professions. The terminology used also varies. The legal practitioner is concerned with whether the individual has the legal ability to make the decision. A medical practitioner assesses fluctuations in physical and mental abilities. The problem is that the terms competency and capacity are used interchangeably resulting in confusion about what is actually being assessed. The terminological and methodological differences subsequently create miscommunication and misunderstanding between the professions. Consequently, it is not necessarily a simple solution for a legal professional to seek the opinion of a medical practitioner when assessing testamentary and/or substitute decision-making competency/capacity. This research investigates the effects of the current inadequate testamentary and substitute decision-making assessment paradigm and whether there is a more satisfactory approach. This exploration is undertaken within a framework of therapeutic jurisprudence which promotes principles fundamentally important in this context.en
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dc.titleCompetency and Capacity: The Legal and Medical Interfaceen
dc.typeThesis Doctoralen
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and Societyen
local.contributor.firstnameKelly Jayneen
local.contributor.firstnameEilisen
local.contributor.firstnameJeanneen
local.subject.for2008180119 Law and Societyen
local.subject.seo2008940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classifieden
dcterms.RightsStatementCopyright 2012 - Kelly Jayne Purseren
dc.date.conferred2013en
local.thesis.degreelevelDoctoralen
local.thesis.degreenameDoctor of Philosophyen
local.contributor.grantorUniversity of New Englanden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Lawen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Healthen
local.profile.emailkpurser@myune.edu.auen
local.profile.emailemagner@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailjmadison@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryT2en
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune_thesis-20120717-131131en
local.title.subtitleThe Legal and Medical Interfaceen
local.contributor.lastnamePurseren
local.contributor.lastnameMagneren
local.contributor.lastnameMadisonen
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dc.identifier.staffune-id:jmadisonen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:13691en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
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local.title.maintitleCompetency and Capacityen
local.output.categorydescriptionT2 Thesis - Doctorate by Researchen
local.thesis.borndigitalyesen
local.search.authorPurser, Kelly Jayneen
local.search.supervisorMagner, Eilisen
local.search.supervisorMadison, Jeanneen
local.uneassociationYesen
local.year.conferred2013en
local.subject.for2020480405 Law and society and socio-legal researchen
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