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An aide memoire for a balancing act? Critiquing the ‘balance sheet’ approach to best interests decision-making
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The balance sheet is commonly used as a deliberative approach to decide best interests in Court of Protection cases in England and Wales, since Thorpe LJ in Re A (Male Sterilisation) described the balance sheet as a tool to enable judges and best interests decision-makers to quantify, compare, and calculate the different options at play. Recent judgments have critically reflected on the substance and practical function of the balance sheet approach, highlighting the practical stakes of its im...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/medlaw/fwaa027
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Medical Law Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 753–780
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-07-19
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1464-3790
- ISSN:
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0967-0742
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English
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1128396
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pubs:1128396
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2020-08-26
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- Kong, C et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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