JSB171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: United Nations Human Rights Committee, Corporation Sole, Elder Abuse
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Purpose of lecture is to introduce you to some basic concepts of legal personality and capacity, and the problems that lay at the edges of these neat categories. In the tutorial we will be given a topic and some readings and will need to write an essay plan. As for readings, there is no one good" chapter or article that covers the whole topic. For the tutorial question regarding animals, indigenous people and the elderly, see pages 167 168 of the. Where the tutorial question says should be granted legal personality" it should be read as should be granted full legal capacity". Personality = the quality, character or fact of being a person as distinct from being a thing (oxford english. Legal persons those recognised by the legal system as capable of having rights and duties and taking part in litigation. Includes all natural persons, and groups such as corporations and bodies politic" governments of nations and states.
