LAWS 2201 Study Guide - Best Interests, Intellectual Disability, Hysterectomy
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Have to have capacity to understand situation, but in emergencies different. Not to look at chronological age but at specific individuals and their capacity of understanding. Cared for only by mom and sister both mentally ill brainwashed her ? into beliefs cause she never saw others. Hospital says she needs a lot of care all of them say no. She"s 16 but compassion test says she isn"t capable of deciding on anything except for managing her ocd. They say test was misapplied and authorities only looked at first part of test. Capacity test: understand the info that is relevant, able to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences. Parents jehovah"s witness, boy is undergoing chemo. Parents say no blood products after chemo. Services go in and detain boy as child in need of protection . Mom tries to get courts to allow hysterectomy on her daughter. Justice laforest says look at protected persons" best interests.